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Microplastics
2024
Andreas Fath,
Andreas Fath
Summary
This entry provides a general overview of microplastics, describing how the durability that makes plastics so useful also makes them a persistent environmental problem as they break down into microscopic particles that accumulate across ecosystems.
Plastics, colloquially also referred to as plastic (not to be confused with a sculpture or sculpture of a sculptor), are used extensively due to their durability. This results in problems with environmentally friendly disposal, with microplastics playing a...