In Vitro Digestion of Tire Particles in a Fish Model ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ): Solubilization Kinetics of Heavy Metals and Effects of Food Coingestion

Tire and road wear particles (TRWP) have been shown to represent a large part of anthropogenic particles released into the environment. Nevertheless, the potential ecological risk of TRWP in the different environmental compartments and their potential toxic impacts on terrestrial and aquatic organis...

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Published in:Environmental science & technology Vol. 55; no. 23; p. 15788
Main Authors: Masset, Thibault, Ferrari, Benoit J D, Oldham, Dean, Dudefoi, William, Minghetti, Matteo, Schirmer, Kristin, Bergmann, Alan, Vermeirssen, Etienne, Breider, Florian
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 07.12.2021
Subjects:
Animals
Digestion
Kinetics
Metals, Heavy
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Rubber
Water Pollutants, Chemical
TRWP
microplastics
heavy metals
tire
tyre
ISSN:1520-5851, 1520-5851
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Summary:Tire and road wear particles (TRWP) have been shown to represent a large part of anthropogenic particles released into the environment. Nevertheless, the potential ecological risk of TRWP in the different environmental compartments and their potential toxic impacts on terrestrial and aquatic organisms remain largely underinvestigated. Several heavy metals compose TRWP, including Zn, which is used as a catalyst during the vulcanization process of rubber. This study investigated the solubilization potential of metals from cryogenically milled tire tread (CMTT) and TRWP in simulated gastric fluids (SF ) and simulated intestinal fluids (SF ) designed to mimic rainbow trout ( ) gastrointestinal conditions. Our results indicate that the solubilization of heavy metals was greatly enhanced by gastrointestinal fluids compared to that by mineral water. After a 26 h digestion, 9.6 and 23.0% of total Zn content of CMTT and TRWP, respectively, were solubilized into the simulated gastrointestinal fluids. Coingestion of tire particles (performed with CMTT only) and surrogate prey items ( ) demonstrated that the animal organic matter reduced the amount of bioavailable Zn solubilized from CMTT. Contrastingly, in the coingestion scenario with vegetal organic matter ( ), high quantities of Zn were solubilized from and cumulated with Zn solubilized from CMTT.
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ISSN:1520-5851
1520-5851
DOI:10.1021/acs.est.1c04385