Definitions for microplastics
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1. Microplastics

   Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment. Microplastics are not a specific kind of plastic, but rather any type of plastic fragment that is less than 5 mm in length according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Chemicals Agency. They enter natural ecosystems from a variety of sources, including cosmetics, clothing, and industrial processes. Two classifications of microplastics currently exist. Primary microplastics are any plastic fragments or particles that are already 5.0 mm in size or less before entering the environment. These include microfibers from clothing, microbeads, and plastic pellets (also known as nurdles). Secondary microplastics are microplastics that are created from the degradation of larger plastic products once they enter the environment through natural weathering processes. Such sources of secondary microplastics include water and soda bottles, fishing nets, and plastic bags. Both types are recognized to persist in the environment at high levels, particularly in aquatic and marine ecosystems. The term macroplastics is used to differentiate larger plastic waste, such as plastic bottles. Additionally, plastics degrade slowly, often over hundreds if not thousands of years. This increases the probability of microplastics being ingested and incorporated into, and accumulated in, the bodies and tissues of many organisms. The entire cycle and movement of microplastics in the environment is not yet known, but research is currently underway to investigate this issue.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of microplastics in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of microplastics in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of microplastics in a Sentence

1. Jyrki Katainen:

   The European Union is first in the world to have launched a comprehensive plastics strategy which aims at reducing also microplastics.

2. Richard Thompson:

   That's really the place where you want to intervene and the place where you want the data. It's far simpler to count and identify the microplastics of the future.

3. Andrew Mayes:

   The report also emphasizes that, while risks to health of microplastics through ingestion in water may be low, there is a continuing need to reduce plastic inputs into the environment at source, in order to prevent the problem becoming worse, this can be enacted through better waste management and implementation of incentive schemes and governments should prioritize such actions in the overall global strategy to reduce plastic inputs into oceans( the ultimate sink for all of the waste).

4. Peter Jenkinson:

   We know that microplastics are endemic in the environment, in consumer products we all use, and in many different species of animals that we consume directly or indirectly, so it would be more surprising if they had not detected microplastics in human stools.

5. Stephanie Wright:

   Some of the included studies should be interpreted with caution, especially those which only rely on visual means to identify microplastics, these current estimates suggest microplastic exposure is relatively low.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics