Could microplastics be leached when a plastic bottle is hit?

[kenny1999]

For example, I have some fingernails, I touch the mouth of a plastic bottle but the fingernail hits on the edge, I could feel it is a big hit, of course no observable damage is seen because it is just a fingernail, could this already create some microplastics that we don't see?

 

[jim mcnamara]

You have asked questions on microplastics before and gotten answers. This seems like speculation, not science.

I do not understand what you are asking - please give us a reference. Thanks

 

[russ_watters]

If you are asking if you can scratch plastic off of food containers/utensils and ingest it, the answer is of course yes.