Institute of Environmental Health and Ecological Security, School of Emergency Management, School of the Environment and Safety, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Rd., 212013 Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China; Natural Science Unit, School of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State 410001, Nigeria; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State 410001, Nigeria.
Natural Science Unit, School of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State 410001, Nigeria; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State 410001, Nigeria; Department of Environmental Health and Risk Management, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
Sci Total Environ. 2024 Jun 1;927:172308. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172308. Epub 2024 Apr 8.
Despite the diverse research into the environmental impact of plastics, several stones have yet to be unraveled in terms of their ecotoxicological potential. Moreover, their detrimental impacts have become terrifying in recent years as the understanding of their tendency to associate and form cohorts with other emerging contaminants grew. Despite the hypothesis that microplastics may potentially adsorb organic pollutants, sequestering and making them not bioavailable for enhanced toxicity, evidence with pollutants such as Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) defers this assertion. TBBPA, one of the most widely used brominated flame retardants, has been enlisted as an emerging contaminant of serious environmental and human health concerns. Being also an additive to plasticware, it is not far to suspect that TBBPA could be found in association with micro/nanoplastics in our environment. Several pieces of evidence from recent studies have confirmed the micro/nanoplastics-TBBPA association and have exposed their compounded detrimental impacts on the environment and human health. This study, therefore, presents a comprehensive and up-to-date review of recent findings regarding their occurrence, factors that foster their association, including their sorption kinetics and isotherms, and their impacts on aquatic/agroecosystem and human health. The way forward and prospects for future studies were presented. This research is believed to be of significant interest to the readership due to its relevance to current environmental challenges posed by plastics and TBBPA. The study not only contributes valuable insights into the specific interaction between micro/nanoplastics and TBBPA but also suggests the way forward and prospects for future studies in this field.
尽管人们对塑料的环境影响进行了广泛的研究，但在其生态毒理学潜力方面，仍有一些问题尚未解决。此外，近年来，随着人们对塑料与其他新兴污染物相互作用和形成共生体的趋势的认识不断加深，其危害性变得更加可怕。尽管有假说认为微塑料可能具有吸附有机污染物的潜力，从而将其隔离并使其不易被生物利用，从而增强其毒性，但关于多溴联苯醚（TBBPA）等污染物的证据却对这一说法提出了质疑。TBBPA 是最广泛使用的溴系阻燃剂之一，已被列为一种严重的环境和人类健康关注的新兴污染物。作为塑料添加剂，人们不难怀疑 TBBPA 可能会与环境中的微/纳米塑料相关联。最近的几项研究证据证实了微/纳米塑料与 TBBPA 的关联，并揭示了它们对环境和人类健康的复合危害性。因此，本研究对最近关于它们的出现、促进它们关联的因素（包括它们的吸附动力学和等温线）以及它们对水生/农业生态系统和人类健康的影响的发现进行了全面和最新的综述。提出了未来的研究方向和前景。由于与塑料和 TBBPA 所带来的当前环境挑战有关，因此这项研究相信会引起读者的极大兴趣。该研究不仅为微/纳米塑料与 TBBPA 之间的特定相互作用提供了有价值的见解，还为该领域未来的研究方向和前景提供了建议。
