Table 3.

Name of various chemicals adsorbed by MP or NP.

MP/NP type	Size	Chemical sorbate	Reference
Bio-degradable PE, PBAT and PS	400, 2338 ± 486 and 250 μm, respectively	Phenanthrene	Zuo et al. (2019)
UV-accelerated PVC and PS	75 μm	Ciprofloxacin	Li et al. (2018)
Pristine and aged PS	125–250 μm	Organic compounds (not named)	Hüffer et al. (2018)
Virgin and beached PS	0.45–1 mm	Oxytetracycline	Zhang et al., (2018)
HDPE, PVC and PS	100–150 μm	Pyrene	Wang and Wang (2018a)
PE	45–48 μm	Propranolol, Sulfamethoxazole, Sertraline	Razanajatovo et al. (2018)
PP, PVC, PE, PS and PA	75–180 μm	Amoxicillin, Sulfadiazine, Tetracycline, Trimethoprim Ciprofloxacin	Li et al. (2018)
PE	150 μm	Sulfamethoxazole	Xu et al. (2018)
PVC, PP, PE, and PS	200 mesh	Tylosin	Guo et al. (2018)
PE, PS and PVC	100–150 μm	Phenanthrene and pyrene	Wang and Wang (2018b)
Virgin PA, PP and PS	3–5 mm	Metformin and Difenoconazole	Goedecke et al. (2017)
PP	0.18–0.425, 0.425–0.85, 0.85–2, 2–5 mm	3,3 ′,4,4 ′ tetrachloro biphenyl	Zhan et al. (2016)
PE, PA, PS and PVC PS PE, LDPE	22–220 nm <100 nm	Naphthalene, Ethyl benzene, Cyclohexane, n-hexane, Benzene, Chlorobenzene, and Toluene Organic compounds (not named) Pharmaceutical compound, non-polymer nanomaterial	Hüffer and Hofmann (2016) Koelmans et al. (2020) Koelmans et al. (2015)