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Microplastics
2019
8 citations
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Mohd. Shahnawaz,
Manisha K. Sangale,
Avinash B. Ade
Summary
This overview covers what microplastics are, why their small size makes them difficult to track, and how they mix with organic matter and enter food chains — providing a foundational summary of the scope and nature of the global microplastics problem.
Microplastic includes all the types of plastics less than 5 mm. Due to this small size, it is difficult to estimate the exact amount of the microplastic wastes throughout the globe. Being small sized it gets mixed easily with the organic matter and consumed...