PMID- 32835979
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20201211
LR  - 20201214
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 263
DP  - 2021 Jan
TI  - Sorption of pharmaceuticals on the surface of microplastics.
PG  - 127976
LID - S0045-6535(20)32171-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127976 [doi]
AB  - The presence of both pollutants: microplastics and pharmaceutical residues in 
      various environmental compartments is an issue of increasing concern. Available 
      literature data indicates that microplastics can affect the environmental 
      distribution and transport of e.g. persistent organic pollutants (POPs) through 
      sorption interactions, concentrating them at a given point and thus influencing 
      the environmental risks represented by the sorbent and sorbate pair. Therefore, 
      their potential to change the fate of other contaminants in the environment, such 
      as pharmaceuticals, is worth investigating. The aim of this study was to evaluate 
      the sorption capacity of nine pharmaceuticals, commonly used in human and 
      veterinary medicine, which constitute known ubiquitous water pollutants: 
      enrofloxacin (ENR), ciprofloxacin (CIP), norfloxacin (NOR), 5-fluorouracil 
      (5-FU), methotrexate (MET), flubendazole (FLU), fenbendazole (FEN), propranolol 
      (PRO) and nadolol (NAD), on the surface of the most often identified microscopic 
      plastic particles in the aquatic environment, i.e. polypropylene (PP), low 
      density polyethylene (LD-PE), high density polyethylene (HD-PE) and polyvinyl 
      chloride (PVC). The obtained results suggest a complex nature of sorption, 
      including both hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions. However, since the 
      ionic strength of the medium was found to be a significant factor influencing the 
      sorption potential, minute interactions are observed in conditions common for the 
      natural environment.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Puckowski, Alan
AU  - Puckowski A
AD  - Department of Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 
      Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland. Electronic address: 
      alan.puckowski@ug.edu.pl.
FAU - Cwiek, Weronika
AU  - Cwiek W
AD  - Department of Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 
      Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland.
FAU - Mioduszewska, Katarzyna
AU  - Mioduszewska K
AD  - Department of Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 
      Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland.
FAU - Stepnowski, Piotr
AU  - Stepnowski P
AD  - Department of Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 
      Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland.
FAU - Bialk-Bielinska, Anna
AU  - Bialk-Bielinska A
AD  - Department of Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 
      Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200817
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Microplastics)
RN  - 0 (Pharmaceutical Preparations)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Polypropylenes)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 9002-86-2 (Polyvinyl Chloride)
RN  - 9002-88-4 (Polyethylene)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adsorption
MH  - Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
MH  - Microplastics/*chemistry
MH  - Pharmaceutical Preparations/*chemistry
MH  - Plastics
MH  - Polyethylene/chemistry
MH  - Polypropylenes/chemistry
MH  - Polyvinyl Chloride/chemistry
MH  - Static Electricity
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Ionic strength
OT  - Microplastic
OT  - Pharmaceuticals
OT  - Sorption
OT  - pH influence
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2020/08/25 06:00
MHDA- 2020/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2020/08/25 06:00
PHST- 2020/03/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/07/21 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/08/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/08/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/12/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/08/25 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(20)32171-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127976 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2021 Jan;263:127976. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127976. Epub 
      2020 Aug 17.