Sentences with phrase «microplastic fragments»

This image shows microplastic fragments and pre-production pellets collected from a sandy shoreline in Europe; these items are continually fragmenting in the environment.

The fishes» guts included microplastic fragments and strands from fishing nets, although in amounts too small to cause problems for large fish.

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Since the results indicate that the amount of hazardous microplastics is set to increase more than tenfold if left to fragment, the time to start is now.»

Microplastics are small plastic fragments that have accumulated in the marine environment following decades of pollution.

The researchers found microplastics in the shape of opaque and transparent spherules as well as of fragments and fibers.

A variety of microplastics collected from composted waste in Germany included polyethylene spheres (A), which are used in paints and coatings; PVC fragments (B), used widely in construction materials, electronics and vehicles; bits of polyethylene (C and D), which is found in bags, containers and bottles; polyester fibers (E); and polypropylene (F), used in bags, packaging and textiles.

Microplastics refer to barely visible litter in the form of small fragments, fibres and granules.

Microscopic fragments of plastic — or microplastics — are pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in diameter and are a global marine pollutant.

The microplastics found in the zooplankton in this study consisted of small fragments and fibers, but not the deliberately designed microbeads that may sink to the sediments in the ocean.

Recently, the team reported on the ubiquity of microplastics — tiny fragments of plastic and fibres — in the deep sea.

Recognizes that plastics, including microplastics, in the marine environment are a rapidly increasing problem due to their large and still increasing use combined with the inadequate management and disposal of plastic waste, and because plastic debris in the marine environment is steadily fragmenting into secondary microplastics; 5.

Microplastics — These are the tiny pieces that plastic breaks into over time — not disintegrating, but simply fragmenting, making it ever more accessible to marine life.

«The plastic coating [in compostable cups] breaks down into tiny plastic fragments — «microplastics» — which don't actually disappear.