Impact of Degradation of Polyethylene Particles on Their Cytotoxicity

Microplastics are ubiquitous in the environment, including ocean, soil, and air. Therefore, there concerns regarding human exposure. Since it is known that surface of microplastics various environments chemically deteriorated by external factors such as ultraviolet rays waves, essential to evaluate biological effects degraded microplastics. In this study, we experimented accelerating degradation polyethylene (PE) using vacuum light prepared PE samples with different degrees degradation. Then, evaluated undegraded variously on cells cytotoxicity tests. Based test results, saw a tendency for increased increasing study substantially links deterioration their effects.