Sentences with phrase «microplastics made»
«Microplastics make marine worms sick.»
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Most of the pieces in there are microplastics — those tiny particles of plastic that seem to be in most bottled water these days — but they only make up for 8 % of the total estimated mass.
Earthworms, for example, make their burrows differently when microplastics are present in the soil, affecting the earthworm's fitness and the soil condition.
«The great spatial heterogeneity of microplastics at large and mesoscales makes it difficult to extrapolate local monitoring data to larger areas,» Nerland explains.
Tests of mineral rich sea salts made from drying sea water are revealing that they are contaminated with hormone disrupting microplastics.
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.
In the ocean, ultraviolet light makes plastic brittle and wave action crushes it, breaking it down into microplastics — pieces smaller than a grain of rice.