Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment due to accidental contamination from lab gloves, which release stearate salts that are structurally similar to polyethylene and difficult to distinguish from plastics using standard vibrational spectroscopy
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Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment – and the culprit is lab gloves
Tiny particles from certain lab gloves look like microplastics, and they can contaminate samples, new study finds.