The ripple effects of microplastics on the planet’s ecosystems pose a threat to our own well-being.
Scientists break down their mega impact.
Occurring in a variety of shapes and colors, thesemini plastics are unified by their size.
As for where they originate?
Like any large plastic object, called amacroplastic, microplastics can, in some instances, be manufactured intentionally.
Think: glitter, foam balls for bean bags, and microbeads in exfoliating cleansers of the 2010s.
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(After those microbeads were deemeda hazardous pollutantin 2015, aU.S.
law bannedthe production of rinse-off cosmetics containing them, foreshadowing the crisis to come.)
And in transit alone, these pellets have been known tospill in mass quantities.
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Certainly, that means were breathing in microplastics.
More carbon in the air just contributes, again, to rising temperatures by way of the greenhouse effect.
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