differentiate microplastics from larger plastic waste, such as plastic bottles or bigger pieces of plastics. Two classifications of microplastics are currently...

Microplastics effects on human health are a subject of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have...

urban water evacuation canals, which then degrade to form microplastics. These microplastics, which are fragments of plastic invisible to the naked eye...

presence of plastics, particularly microplastics, within the food chain is increasing. In the 1960s microplastics were observed in the guts of seabirds...

Plastics in the water break up into very small particles known as microplastics. Microplastics can also come from synthetic clothing washed down our drains...

smaller and smaller pieces over time. Microplastics are particles that are smaller than 5 mm in size. Microplastics are observable in air, water, and soil...

11 000 bits of microplastics per year. Even very minute microplastics have been discovered in human blood. The extent of microplastic pollution in the...

Lehtiniemi, Maiju; Coppock, Rachel; Cole, Matthew (2018), "Microplastics in Marine Food Webs", Microplastic Contamination in Aquatic Environments, Elsevier, pp...

regarding plastic pollution in the marine ecosystem is the use of microplastics. Microplastics are beads of plastic less than 5 millimeters wide, and they are...

the plastics industry for the manufacture of plastic products. These microplastics are made primarily from polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl...