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Addressing plastic additives [PDF]

, 2023
Hundreds of chemicals with known toxicity to humans and the environment are still widely used as additives in plastics. The average consumer’s knowledge of what goes into plastic products is not sufficient to make informed choices about exposure. The data collection needed to make these choices often does not exist, especially for recycled products ...
Castillo Castillo, Arturo, Brophy, Kieran, Hallett, jason, Brandt-Talbot, agnieska, von Holstein, Isabella   +4 more
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The Known and Unknown: Investigating the Carcinogenic Potential of Plastic Additives [PDF]

Environmental Science & Technology
Zoie Diana, Andrew Armstrong, Jason A Somarelli   +2 more
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Ones That Get Away: Investigating the Leaching of Persistent, Mobile, and Toxic Plastic Additives from New and Environmentally Sampled Plastic Items [PDF]

Environmental Science & Technology
Bonnie Hamilton, Roxana Sühring, Eric Fries   +2 more
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The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health

Annals of Global Health, 2023
Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine, electronics, aerospace, construction, food packaging, and sports.
Philip J. Landrigan, Hervé Raps, Maureen Cropper, Caroline Bald, Manuel Brunner, Elvia Maya Canonizado, Dominic Charles, Thomas C. Chiles, Mary J. Donohue, Judith Enck, Patrick Fenichel, Lora E. Fleming, Christine Ferrier-Pages, Richard Fordham, Aleksandra Gozt, Carly Griffin, Mark E. Hahn, Budi Haryanto, Richard Hixson, Hannah Ianelli, Bryan D. James, Pushpam Kumar, Amalia Laborde, Kara Lavender Law, Keith Martin, Jenna Mu, Yannick Mulders, Adetoun Mustapha, Jia Niu, Sabine Pahl, Yongjoon Park, Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, Jordan Avery Pitt, Mathuros Ruchirawat, Bhedita Jaya Seewoo, Margaret Spring, John J. Stegeman, William Suk, Christos Symeonides, Hideshige Takada, Richard C. Thompson, Andrea Vicini, Zhanyun Wang, Ella Whitman, David Wirth, Megan Wolff, Aroub K. Yousuf, Sarah Dunlop   +47 more
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A Review of the Literature on the Environmental and Health Impact of Plastic Waste Pollutants in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pollutants, 2022
The discovery of plastic by humankind is fast becoming a challenge as the end-of-life disposal of plastic continues to be a discourse on the global platform.
Adeleye Ayo Adeniran, Emma Ayesu-Koranteng, Winston Shakantu   +2 more
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Development of AOP relevant to microplastics based on toxicity mechanisms of chemical additives using ToxCast™ and deep learning models combined approach

Environment International, 2020
Various additives are used in plastic products to improve the properties and the durability of the plastics. Their possible elution from the plastics when plastics are fragmented into micro- and nano-size in the environment is suspected to one of the ...
Jaeseong Jeong, Jinhee Choi
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Characterising plastic collapse of pipe bend structures [PDF]

, 2006
Two recently proposed design by analysis criteria of plastic collapse based on plastic work concepts, the plastic work (PW) criterion and the plastic work curvature (PWC) criterion, are applied to a strain hardening pipe bend arrangement subject to ...
Li, Hongjun, Mackenzie, Donald
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Plastic additive di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) causes cell death and micronucleus induction on a bottlenose dolphin’s (Tursiops truncatus) in vitro-exposed skin cell line

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Marine plastic pollution is one of the most concerning worldwide environmental issues, and research is day by day demonstrating its adverse effects on marine ecosystems.
Giada Giovani, Silvia Filippi, Chiara Molino, Antonella Peruffo, Cinzia Centelleghe, Roberta Meschini, Dario Angeletti, Dario Angeletti   +7 more
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Plastic Additives

, 2022
Additives are essential components of plastic formulations providing maintenance and/or modification of polymer properties, performance, and long‐term use. Additive means any ingredient which is incorporated in a polymer (or a polymer blend), which
Pfaendner, Rudolf
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A review of the endocrine disrupting effects of micro and nano plastic and their associated chemicals in mammals

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
Over the years, the vaste expansion of plastic manufacturing has dramatically increased the environmental impact of microplastics [MPs] and nanoplastics [NPs], making them a threat to marine and terrestrial biota because they contain endocrine disrupting
Sana Ullah, Shahid Ahmad, Xinle Guo, Saleem Ullah, Sana Ullah, Ghulam Nabi, Kunyuan Wanghe   +6 more
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