A5036856574- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
University of Gothenburg
2016-2025
Institute for Futures Studies
2025
Chalmers University of Technology
2024
Microplastics in the environment are a subject of intense research as they pose potential threat to marine organisms. Plastic fibers from textiles have been indicated major source this type contaminant, entering oceans via wastewater and diverse non-point sources. Their presence is also documented terrestrial samples. In study, amount microfibers shedding synthetic was measured for three materials (acrylic, nylon, polyester), knit using different gauges techniques. All were found shed, but...
Abstract Food packaging is of high societal value because it conserves and protects food, makes food transportable conveys information to consumers. It also relevant for marketing, which economic significance. Other types contact articles, such as storage containers, processing equipment filling lines, are important production supply. articles made up one or multiple different materials consist chemicals. However, chemicals transfer from all into and, consequently, taken by humans. Here we...
Plastic preproduction pellets are found in environmental samples all over the world and their presence is often linked to spills during production transportation. To better understand how these end up environment we assessed release of plastic from a polyethylene site case study area on Swedish west coast. The encompasses; field measurements evaluate level pollution pathways, models drifters investigate potential spread revision legal framework company permits. This show that millions...
Although the study of microplastics in aquatic environment incorporates a diversity research fields, it is still its infancy many aspects while comparable topics have been studied other disciplines for decades. In particular, extensive sedimentology can provide valuable insights to guide future research. To advance our understanding comparability natural sediments with microplastics, we take an interdisciplinary look at existing literature describing particle properties, transport processes,...
Plastics have been instrumental in providing access to clean drinking water, medical applications, and improved hygiene food safety. However, plastics also cause problems. More than 10 million tons of plastic enter the oceans annually. Marine pollution has documented impacts on marine organisms ecosystem services. The use chemical additives poses a potential threat human health. While desirable, recycling is currently constrained by material complexity, limitations available technologies,...
The phenomenon of collective action and the origin problems have been extensively systematically studied in social sciences. Yet, while we substantial knowledge about factors promoting at local level, know far less how these insights travel to large-scale problems. Such problems, however, are heart humanity's most pressing challenges, including climate change, natural resource depletion, biodiversity loss, nuclear proliferation, antibiotic resistance due overconsumption antibiotics,...
The textile industry, while of major importance in the world economy, is a toxic industry utilizing and emitting thousands chemical substances into aquatic environment. aim this project was to study potentially harmful effects associated with leaching residues from three different types textiles: sportswear, children’s bath towels, denim using fish models (cell lines, larvae juvenile fish). A combination vitro vivo test systems used. Numerous biomarkers, ranging gene expression, cytotoxicity...
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Microplastics (MPs) pose a clear threat to aquatic organisms affecting their health. Their impact on liver homeostasis, as well the potential onset of nonalcoholic fatty disease (NAFLD), is still poorly investigated and remains almost unknown. The aim this study was evaluate outcomes subchronic exposure polystyrene MPs (PS-MPs; 1–20 μm; 0, 25, or 250 mg/kg b.w./day) lipid metabolism, inflammation, oxidative balance in gilthead seabreams (Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758) exposed for 21 days via...
Ingestion has been proposed as a prominent exposure route for plastic debris in aquatic organisms, including fish. While the consequences of ingestion large litter are mostly understood, impacts resulting from microplastics (MPs) largely unknown. We designed study that aimed to assess MPs on fish intestinal physiology and examined integrity extrinsic, physical immunological barriers. Rainbow trout were exposed polystyrene (PS) (100–400 μm) via feed period 4 weeks. Fish fed four types diets:...
In this study, we investigated biological effects associated with ingestion of polystyrene (PS) microplastic (MPs) in fish. We examined whether contaminated PS MPs (100–400 μm) results chemical stress rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver and explored exposure can affect the oxidative stability fillet during ice storage. Juvenile were fed for 4 weeks four different experimental diets: control (1) feeds containing virgin (2) or exposed to sewage (3) harbor (4) effluent. A suite...
Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they feasible and ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce pollution efficiently economically, policy should prioritize regulating reducing upstream production rather than downstream cleanup. accumulates all environments, from highest mountains deepest oceans.1Tekman M.B. Walther B.A. Peter C. Gutow L. Bergmann M. Impacts of...
Juvenile perch were exposed to 2 % (w/w) poly(l-lactide) (PLA) microplastic particles (90-150 μm) in food pellets, or kaolin particles, and a non-particle control over 6 months. Chronic ingestion of PLA microplastics significantly affected the social behavior juvenile perch, evident as increased reaction vision conspecifics. did not alter life cycle parameters, gene expression levels. In addition reactions conspecifics, fish that ingested showed tendencies decrease locomotion, internal...
Food contact materials (FCMs) and food articles are ubiquitous in today's globalized system. Chemicals migrate from FCMs into foodstuffs, so called chemicals (FCCs), but current regulatory requirements do not sufficiently protect public health hazardous FCCs because only individual substances used to make tested mostly for genotoxicity while endocrine disruption other hazard properties disregarded. Indeed, a known source of wide range chemicals, they likely contribute highly prevalent...