Sentences with phrase «tiny pieces of plastic»

In 2013, as part of a seven - month circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean, scientists aboard the research vessel Tara documented a profusion of tiny pieces of plastic in the Greenland and Barents seas, where the final limb of the Gulf Stream system delivers Atlantic waters northward.

Microbeads are tiny pieces of plastic used as exfoliants in a range of self - care products, including face wash, soaps and toothpaste.

Every year, hundreds of millions of nurdles, tiny pieces of plastic, are dumped into or lost at sea, where they eventually make their way into the food chain by acting as sponges for a variety of anthropogenic chemicals (e.g. hydrocarbons and DDT).

Many cosmetics and skin care products contain tiny pieces of plastic.

A stunning, and deeply troubling, report published in the journal Science Advances, scientists are finding tiny pieces of plastic, in organic fertilizer made from food waste.

We have plastic islands out in the ocean twice the size of Texas that are made up of tiny pieces of plastic that look just like fish food (opposed to a solid mass of plastic).

Fox and Fiksel used two very powerful lasers to zap two tiny pieces of plastic in a vacuum chamber to 10 million degrees and create two colliding plumes of extremely hot plasma.

Seafood eaters ingest up to 11,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year, study shows New report looks at investment strategies for plastic - free seas.

But some scientists suspect that even these tiny pieces of plastic can throw aquatic life for a loop.

More than 100 personal care products, including facial scrubs and toothpaste, contain tiny pieces of plastic known as microbeads.

With great fanfare, Mayor Bill de Blasio held up for the cameras a tiny piece of plastic bearing his image and address — and sought to make the case that something as bureaucratic as waiting in line for a government identification card could be, using a favorite word, «transcendent.»

My only problem with it was a tiny piece of plastic that wasn't cut right in manufacturing poked my side.

It may seem like there are a ridiculous number of hoops to jump through to get such a tiny piece of plastic, but the reward is well worth the journey.

Not exact matches

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.

In cans of Guinness, the widget is a hollow, spherical piece of plastic with a tiny hole in it.

If you don't have any of the above just put the ice in a resealable plastic bag then put that in another larger resealable plastic bag and give it a few good whacks with a rolling pin until the ice is in tiny pieces.

Steady streams of tiny plastic pieces making their way into the ocean give microbial squatters a place to take up residence.

They'll target a piece of solid plastic with a tiny chamber drilled through that's filled with plastic foam.

While terms like the «Great Pacific Garbage Patch» conjure up visions of floating islands of rubbish, most of the plastic in the oceans consists of tiny pieces invisible to the human eye.

Most of the plastic in the oceans consists of tiny pieces invisible to the human eye.

They used pieces of grocery plastic bags which were vaporized in a furnace to produce carbon layers that line the pores in the membrane to make the tiny cylinders (the carbon nanotubes).

The well plates used in drug screening, for example, may contain as many as 1,536 tiny wells on a playing - card - size piece of glass or plastic, allowing researchers to conduct that many individual experiments by dosing each cell with a different compound.

Using billions of small holes pressed into a piece of plastic the size of a postage stamp, the experiment was able to create a very tiny version of the science used in the goblet.

Why have to fiddle around with some little piece of plastic, trying to fit it into and out of a tiny hole, when you can store everything on the cloud?

Even the smallest piece of plastic or string or a tiny piece of toy stuffing may cause severe internal problems for your dog.

The piece included a tiny altarlike bench on the floor, holding various plastic and ceramic objects, inspired, the artist told me, by his mother's love of tchotchkes.

Every year, eight million tons of plastic are dumped in waterways and oceans, entangling marine wildlife and breaking down into tiny pieces that are ingested by animals and often eaten by humans.

Discarded plastic fishing lines trap and entangle turtles and seabirds, and plastic pieces of all sizes choke and clog the stomachs of creatures who mistake it for food, from tiny zooplankton to whales.