Sentences with phrase «tiny microplastics»

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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.

Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, including fish and shellfish.

Tiny plastic particles smaller than five millimeters, so - called microplastics, are found in almost all waterbodies these days.

This pollution, when broken down into tiny bits called microplastics, can damage the health of marine life.

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

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles (1ɥm — 5 mm) which originates from degeneration of car tires, domestic goods, industrial processes and from degeneration of surfaces composed of, or coated with, plastics, i.e. artificial grass.

«They show that microplastic [tiny plastic] debris decrease the ability for a fish to hatch from its egg.»

But what about the plastic that enters the water already in a tiny form, a microplastic even before it's reached the sea?

These items end up in waterways, washing out to sea, and breaking down over time into the tiny pieces we know as 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.

During a 2012 5 Gyres expedition, we found plastic microbeads — tiny round microplastics used in personal care products — in the Great Lakes in an open - water setting.

Microplastics are tiny beads that get into waterways from our consumer products or tiny fibers that wash out of our clothing.

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