{"id":213727,"date":"2025-05-10T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/nanoplastics-generated-from-real-world-plastic-waste-readily-adsorb-heavy-metal-ions-study-reveals"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:03:04","slug":"nanoplastics-generated-from-real-world-plastic-waste-readily-adsorb-heavy-metal-ions-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/nanoplastics-generated-from-real-world-plastic-waste-readily-adsorb-heavy-metal-ions-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Nanoplastics generated from real-world plastic waste readily adsorb heavy metal ions, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoplastics-generated-from-real-world-plastic-waste-readily-adsorb-heavy-metal-ions-study-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which a staggering 91% of plastic waste is never recycled\u2014with 12% incinerated and 79% left to end up in landfills and oceans and linger in our environment.<\/p>\n<p>Exposure to various elements causes the plastics to break down into microplastics (5 mm) and nanoplastics (1,000 nm). There is a growing public health concern as these nanoplastics (NPs) make their way into the human body through air, water, food and contact with skin.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsestwater.4c01191\" target=\"_blank\">recent study<\/a> published in <i>ACS ES&amp;T Water<\/i> has revealed that the already detrimental effects of NPs are further amplified by their ability to interact with various toxic environmental contaminants, such as heavy metal ions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which a staggering 91% of plastic waste is never recycled\u2014with 12% incinerated and 79% left to end up in landfills and oceans and linger in our environment. Exposure to various elements causes the plastics to break down into microplastics (5 mm) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}