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microplastics
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thumb|upright=1.3|Micro plastics of diverse shapes in sediments from four rivers in white arrowheads indicate aluminium, glass and sand (white bars represent 1mm for scale) thumb|upright=1.3|Photodegraded plastic straw. A light touch breaks larger straw into microplastics.
OverviewAI-generated
Microplastics are the subject of a Wikipedia article that is referenced by 560 other encyclopedia entries. The topic is associated with a Wikimedia Commons category titled "Microplastic". Additionally, a specific URL on the response.restoration.noaa.gov domain provides a description regarding what is known about microbeads and microplastics in the ocean.
The term microplastics has been the subject of 22,737 entries in the PubMed database. A web page from response.restoration.noaa.gov, identified by the source property P973, contains 13,774 characters of text related to this subject.
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Research
22,737 papers- Microplastics in water: Occurrence, fate and removal.Journal of contaminant hydrology · 2024
- Microplastics in the Atmosphere and Water Bodies of Coastal Agglomerations: A Mini-Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
- Microplastics are associated with elevated atherosclerotic risk and increased vascular complexity in acute coronary syndrome patients.Particle and fibre toxicology · 2024
- Microplastics in water: types, detection, and removal strategies.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023
- Microplastics in decapod crustaceans sourced from Australian seafood markets.Marine pollution bulletin · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
59 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Primary microplastics
- Secondary microplastics
- Nanoplastics
- Sources of microplastics
- Oral intake
- Clothing
- Containers and packaging
- Bottled water
- Baby bottles
- Single-use plastic products
- Construction and renovation
- Cosmetics industry
- Fishing industry
- Manufacturing
- Personal protective equipment
- Sewage treatment plants
- Transportation
- Car and truck tires
- Shipping
- Exposure pathways
- Air
- Water
- Oceans
- Ice cores
- Freshwater
- Watersheds
- Soil
- Salt and seafood
- Composition
- Effects on the environment
- Marine and freshwater organisms
- Microbes, soil ecosystems and terrestrial plants
- Animals
- Gastrointestinal effects
- Persistent organic pollutants and emerging organic contaminants
- Geophysics
- Human health
- Prevention
- Dust control
- Treatment
- Filtering
- Collection devices
- Microplastics detection
- Education and recycling
- Funding
- Policy and legislation
- China
- European Union
- Haiti
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- United Kingdom
- United States
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.3|Micro plastics of diverse shapes in sediments from four rivers in white arrowheads indicate aluminium, glass and sand (white bars represent 1mm for scale) thumb|upright=1.3|Photodegraded plastic straw. A light touch breaks larger straw into microplastics.
Microplastics are "synthetic solid particles or polymeric matrices, with regular or irregular shape and with size ranging from 1 μm to 5 mm, of either primary or secondary manufacturing origin, which are insoluble in water."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “microplastics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.