{"id":10134,"date":"2020-06-29T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T06:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","slug":"nanoplastics-can-accumulate-even-in-the-tissues-of-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/29\/nanoplastics-can-accumulate-even-in-the-tissues-of-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanoplastics Can Accumulate Even in The Tissues of Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As plastic waste has reached endemic proportions worldwide, minute plastic particles have been getting into our food. Even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainability-times.com\/environmental-protection\/microplastics-have-ended-up-in-our-table-salt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">table salt<\/a>\u00a0and bottled water have been found to be contaminated with microplastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unknowingly, every one of us consumes an estimated 52,000 tiny plastic particles a year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainability-times.com\/environmental-protection\/each-one-of-us-ingests-tens-of-thousands-of-microplastics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Canadian researchers.<\/a>&nbsp;Meanwhile,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainability-times.com\/environmental-protection\/wwf-unknowingly-we-each-eat-a-plastic-credit-card-a-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to research by the World Wide Fund for Nature<\/a>, we each consume the equivalent of a plastic credit card every week what with all the microplastics in our diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gets worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-020-0707-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New research<\/a>&nbsp;indicates that nanoplastics can accumulate in the tissues of plants, \u201cwhich can have both direct ecological effects and implications for agricultural sustainability and food safety,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/06\/200622152542.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explain<\/a>&nbsp;the experts behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nanoplastic particles can result from plastic waste degrading over time from weathering and other environmental factors until particles are often no larger than a protein or a virus, which is to say invisible to the naked eye. But it remains largely unknown what impacts these tiny particles have on living organisms.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainability-times.com\/environmental-protection\/nanoplastics-can-accumulate-even-in-the-tissues-of-plants\/\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As plastic waste has reached endemic proportions worldwide, minute plastic particles have been getting into our food. Even\u00a0table salt\u00a0and bottled water have been found to be contaminated with microplastics. Unknowingly,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}