Smoked cigarette butt leachate impacts survival and behaviour of freshwater invertebrates.
Cigarette butts
Leachate
Molluscs
Platyhelminth
Smoking
Journal
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Historique:
received:
06
05
2020
revised:
29
06
2020
accepted:
25
07
2020
pubmed:
12
8
2020
medline:
17
9
2020
entrez:
12
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Smoked cigarette filters a. k.a. "butts", composed of plastic (e.g. cellulose acetate) are one of the world's most common litter items. In response to concerns about plastic pollution, biodegradable cellulose filters are being promoted as an environmentally safe alternative, however, once smoked, both contain toxins which can leach once discarded. The impacts of biodegradable butts as littered items on the receiving environment, in comparison with conventional butts has not yet been assessed. A freshwater mesocosm experiment was used to test the effects of leachate from smoked cellulose acetate versus smoked cellulose filters at a range of concentrations (0, 0.2, 1 and 5 butts L
Identifiants
pubmed: 32781211
pii: S0269-7491(20)35974-1
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115286
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Smoke
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115286Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
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.