• Effects of leachates from UV-weathered microplastic on the microalgae Scenedesmus vacuolatus 

      Rummel, Christoph D.; Schäfer, Hannah; Jahnke, Annika; Arp, Hans Peter; Schmitt-Jansen, Mechthild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Plastics undergo successive fragmentation and chemical leaching steps in the environment due to weathering processes such as photo-oxidation. Here, we report the effects of leachates from UV-irradiated microplastics towards ...
    • Weathering Plastics as a Planetary Boundary Threat: Exposure, Fate, and Hazards 

      Arp, Hans Peter; Kühnel, Dana; Rummel, Christoph; MacLeod, Matthew; Potthoff, Annegret; Reichelt, Sophia; Rojo-Nieto, Elisa; Schmitt-Jansen, Mechthild; Sonnenberg, Johanna; Toorman, Erik; Jahnke, Annika (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We described in 2017 how weathering plastic litter in the marine environment fulfils two of three criteria to impose a planetary boundary threat related to “chemical pollution and the release of novel entities”: (1) ...