#nanoplastics — Public Fediverse posts

Millions of tonnes of #nanoplastics are polluting the #ocean
These #plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the #foodweb

These particles, smaller than one micrometer in diameter, behave differently from larger microplastics by remaining suspended throughout the water column rather than settling to the ocean floor. The nanoplastics can pass through cell walls and enter the marine food web through #phytoplankton.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02162-0

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https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/199/1/81/7609801?

#microplastics #Nanoplastics #pollution
#semen #Placenta #breastmilk

#Zooplankton in #ocean and freshwater are rapidly escalating the global environmental threat of #plastics, finds study
#rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in fresh and ocean water around world, are able to chew apart #microplastics, breaking them down into even smaller, and potentially more dangerous, #nanoplastics—particles smaller than one micron. Each #rotifer can create between 348,000–366,000 per day, leading to uncountable swarms of nanoparticles. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-zooplankton-ocean-freshwater-rapidly-escalating.html