Microplastic, as the name implies, is microscopic plastic.
How is Microplastic made?
Ethan Edson of Ocean Diagnostics demonstrates some of his Microplastic sensors.
People eat at least 50,000 Microplastic particles per year, according to one study.
Out of all
the 259 bottles tested, 93% contained some sort of Microplastic particles.
In one study, Microplastic particles were found in each of the tested mineral waters.
The team from IIT-B's Centre
for Environmental Science and Engineering found 626 Microplastic particles in the tested samples.
They found that an adult male
could expect to ingest up to 52 000 Microplastic particles each year.
According to a new analysis, every year human eats and breathes in tens of thousands of Microplastic particles.
Ireland's Fion Ferreira has been given the first prize of this year for his project to remove Microplastic from his sea.
The study stated that 63 per cent of the Microplastic particles was in the form of fragments
and 37 per cent were fibres.
Another one of these companies, Ocean Diagnostics, has built
the first automated, low-cost Microplastic sensor that can identify and
remove Microplastic particles from the water.
Another one of these companies, Mantaray Microplastics, has built
the first automated, low-cost Microplastic sensor that can identify and
remove Microplastic particles from the water.
With last week's news that the
average person ingests more than 70,000 Microplastic particles a year still fresh,
another nation has vowed to clean up its act.
The 10th edition of the dictionary, which was launched on Friday, has 384 Indian English words and incorporates over 1,000 new words such
as chatbot, fake news and Microplastic.
An estimated 1,900 microfibers can get rinsed out of a single piece of
synthetic clothing each time it's washed, and these Microplastic fibers might be the biggest contributors to ocean pollution.
The German Federal Environmental Agency, which sees Microplastic as a risk to the environment and waters,
is in talks with the cosmetics industry for a voluntary renunciation of Microplastics and also pleads for an EU-wide ban on plastic particles.