PMID- 37639827
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230925
LR  - 20230925
IS  - 1090-2414 (Electronic)
IS  - 0147-6513 (Linking)
VI  - 264
DP  - 2023 Oct 1
TI  - Aging rate, environmental risk and production efficiency of the low-density 
      polyethylene (LDPE) films with contrasting thickness in irrigated region.
PG  - 115399
LID - S0147-6513(23)00903-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.115399 [doi]
AB  - Physical thickness of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) films might determine the 
      release rate of phthalic acid esters (PAEs) & structural integrity and affect 
      production efficiency. However, this critical issue is still unclear and little 
      reported. Aging effects were evaluated in LDPE films with the thickness of 0.006, 
      0.008, 0.010 and 0.015 mm in a maize field of irrigation region. The Scanning 
      electron microscope (SEM) results showed that the proportion of damaged area 
      (Dam) to total area of LDPE films was massively lowered with increasing thickness 
      after aging. The highest and lowest Dam was 32.2% and 3.5% in 0.006 and 0.015 mm 
      films respectively. Also, the variations in peak intensity of asymmetric & 
      symmetrical stretching vibrations (ASVI & SSVI) were detected using Fourier 
      transform infrared spectrum (FTIR), indicating that the declines in peak 
      intensity tended to be slower with thickness. Interestingly, the declines in 
      physical integrity were tightly associated with increasing exhalation rate of 
      PAEs. Average releasing rate of PAEs was 38.2%, 31.4%, 31.5% and 19.7% in LDPE 
      films from 0.006 to 0.015 mm respectively. Critically, thicker film mulching can 
      lead to greater soil water storage at plough layer (SWS-PL) and better thermal 
      status, accordingly harvesting higher economic benefit. Therefore, LDPE film 
      thickening may be a solution to reduce environmental risk but improve production 
      efficiency in arid region.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Xiong, Xiao-Bin
AU  - Xiong XB
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Zhao, Ze-Ying
AU  - Zhao ZY
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Wang, Peng-Yang
AU  - Wang PY
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Mo, Fei
AU  - Mo F
AD  - College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China.
FAU - Zhou, Rui
AU  - Zhou R
AD  - School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, 
      PR China.
FAU - Cao, Jing
AU  - Cao J
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Liu, Shu-Tong
AU  - Liu ST
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Zhang, Feng
AU  - Zhang F
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Wesly, Kiprotich
AU  - Wesly K
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Wang, Yi-Bo
AU  - Wang YB
AD  - Gansu Key Laboratory of Resource Utilization of Agricultural Solid Wastes, 
      Tianshui Normal University, Tianshui 741000, PR China.
FAU - Fang, Xiang-Wen
AU  - Fang XW
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Tao, Hong-Yan
AU  - Tao HY
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
FAU - Xiong, You-Cai
AU  - Xiong YC
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, 
      College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. Electronic 
      address: xiongyc@lzu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230826
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
JT  - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
JID - 7805381
RN  - 9002-88-4 (Polyethylene)
RN  - 0 (Soil)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Polyethylene
MH  - *Light
MH  - Soil
MH  - Vibration
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Aging rate
OT  - Dryland maize
OT  - LDPE film thickness
OT  - PAEs
OT  - Water productivity
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- 2023/08/29 00:41
MHDA- 2023/09/25 06:42
CRDT- 2023/08/28 18:03
PHST- 2023/06/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/08/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/08/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/09/25 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/08/29 00:41 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/08/28 18:03 [entrez]
AID - S0147-6513(23)00903-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.115399 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2023 Oct 1;264:115399. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.115399. 
      Epub 2023 Aug 26.