An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling

Hahladakis, John N.; Velis, Costas A.; Weber, Roland; Iacovidou, Eleni; Purnell, Phil

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.10.014

Cited by 3,873Microplastics and Plastic PollutionPolymer Science and PVCRecycling and Waste Management Techniques

An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling

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Hahladakis, John N., Velis, Costas A., Weber, Roland, Iacovidou, Eleni, Purnell, Phil·2018·Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Over the last 60 years plastics production has increased manifold, owing to their inexpensive, multipurpose, durable and lightweight nature. These characteristics have raised the demand for plastic materials that will continue to grow over the coming years. However, with increased plastic materials production, comes increased plastic material wastage creating a number of challenges, as well as opportunities to the waste management industry. The present overview highlights the waste management and pollution challenges, emphasising on the various chemical substances (known as "additives") contained in all plastic products for enhancing polymer properties and prolonging their life. Despite how useful these additives are in the functionality of polymer products, their potential to contaminate soil, air, water and food is widely documented in literature and described herein. These additives can potentially migrate and undesirably lead to human exposure via e.g. food contact materials, such as packaging. They can, also, be released from plastics during the various recycling and recovery processes and from the products produced from recyclates. Thus, sound recycling has to be performed in such a way as to ensure that emission of substances of high concern and contamination of recycled products is avoided, ensuring environmental and human health protection, at all times.

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Authors: Hahladakis, J. N., Velis, C. A., Weber, R., Iacovidou, E., & Purnell, P.
Affiliations: University of Leeds (GB)
Corresponding author: Velis, Costas A.
ORCID: Velis, Costas A.
Weber, Roland
Iacovidou, Eleni
Purnell, Phil
Venue: Journal of Hazardous Materials
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2018-02
Volume: 344
Pages: 179-199
ISSN: 0304-3894 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.10.014
OpenAlex: W2761590587
Cited by: 3,873
References: 189
Citations by year: 2026: 488 · 2025: 618 · 2024: 682 · 2023: 596 · 2022: 546 · 2021: 451 · 2020: 294 · 2019: 139 · 2018: 57
FWCI: 6.33
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Locations: Journal of Hazardous Materials (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) (submittedVersion)
Funders: Economic and Social Research Council
National Eye Research Centre
Natural Environment Research Council
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer Science and PVC
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
Keywords: polymer additives, chemical migration, plastic waste management, plastic recycling, food contact materials, food packaging, environmental contamination, human exposure, environmental impact of plastics

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