| Title: | Authentication of recycled plastic content in water bottles using volatile fingerprint and chemometrics |
| Author(s): | Penalver R; Marin C; Arroyo-Manzanares N; Campillo N; Vinas P; |
| Address: | "Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Regional Campus of International Excellence 'Campus Mare Nostrum', University of Murcia, E-30100, Murcia, Spain. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Regional Campus of International Excellence 'Campus Mare Nostrum', University of Murcia, E-30100, Murcia, Spain. Electronic address: natalia.arroyo@um.es" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134156 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-1298 (Electronic) 0045-6535 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The environment is threatened by the continuously increasing volume of plastic residue. Plastic recycling is an interesting alternative to mitigate this problem. However, recycled plastic products may have pollutants from their recycling process, collecting system and/or previous life which may hurt consumers health, thus making it key to authenticate and characterize recycled materials. An innovative non-targeted methodology by means of static headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SHS-GC-MS) has been developed to measure the volatile organic profile of virgin polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and with diverse content of recycled PET samples. A home-made MS database, with 161 organic compounds characteristics from plastic materials based on the literature, was made. Seventeen of those compounds were found in the studied samples and identified by matching their MS spectra with MS database libraries. These compounds are mainly aldehydes (pentanal, hexanal, heptanal, octanal, nonanal and decanal), and benzene derivatives (styrene, p-xylene, benzaldehyde, methylbenzene, and 1,2-dichlorobenzene) which we found to be the common in the samples of recycled PET. The combination of the dataset consisting in the peak area of the detected species by SHS-GC-MS and the use of chemometrics shown to be a valuable methodology for the discrimination between virgin PET samples and those with different recycled PET content based on their volatile profile. In addition, a novel strategy applying a statistical model based on partial least squares (PLS) regression was proposed, for the first time, to quantify the recycled plastic content in the PET samples" |
| Keywords: | Chemometrics Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/methods *Plastics/chemistry Polyethylene Terephthalates Recycling *Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis Authentication Non-targeted analysis Polyethylene terephthalate Recycled; |
| Notes: | "MedlinePenalver, Rosa Marin, Cristina Arroyo-Manzanares, Natalia Campillo, Natalia Vinas, Pilar eng England 2022/03/04 Chemosphere. 2022 Jun; 297:134156. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134156. Epub 2022 Feb 28" |
