The Effect of Microplastics on Living Things

Year 2022, Volume: 31 Issue: 2, 94 - 98, 30.06.2022

Ayper Pekmezekmek

https://doi.org/10.17827/aktd.1058792

Abstract

Our oceans and seas have been polluted with plastics for nearly 60 years. The increase in plastic consumption all over the world, the possibility of plastics remaining in the environment for hundreds of years without decomposing, the decomposition of plastics into smaller pieces, the detection of organisms at all levels of the marine food chain, and the possibility of human exposure to microplastics through food increase the awareness on this issue day by day. With the introduction of microplastics and nanoplastics, scientists have started to work on this pollution in water, especially since 2010. The common view is that the impact of this type of pollution on the environment will increase and harm living things.

Keywords

Plastics, microplastics, nanoplastics

Mikroplastiklerin Canlılara Etkileri

Abstract

Okyanus ve denizlerimiz yaklaşık 60 yıldan beri plastiklerle kirlenmektedir. Tüm dünyada plastik tüketiminin artması, plastiklerin bozunmadan yüzlerce yıl çevrede kalması, plastiklerin daha küçük parçalara ayrışması, deniz besin zincirinin tüm seviyelerindeki organizmalarda tespit edilmesi ve insanların gıda yoluyla mikroplastiklere maruz kalma olasılığı bu konudaki farkındalığı her geçen gün artırmaktadır. Mikroplastikler ve nanoplastiklerin devreye girmesiyle özellikle 2010 yılından beri bilim adamları sulardaki bu kirlilikle ilgili çalışma yapmaya başlamışlardır. Ortak görüş bu kirlilik türünün çevre üzerine etkisinin daha da büyüyeceği ve canlılara zarar vereceği şeklindedir.

Keywords

Plastikler, mikroplastikler, nanoplastikler

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