How to Use microplastic in a Sentence
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Over the past decade, researchers have documented the degradation of plastics and the release of chemicals from plastic polymers and additives in plastics and microplastics.
—Laodong Guo, The Conversation, 25 June 2024
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The patch is made of both bigger pieces of debris and microplastics.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
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In half of the brands tested, researchers found more than 1,000 pieces of microplastic per liter.
—Joseph Winters / Grist, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
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The threat of microplastics to D.C. drinking water is not clear.
—Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
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And this is clearly showing that microplastic is going into the sea and back out of the sea.
—Sara Harrison, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
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From the microplastics in our blood, to the plastic bottles clogging our oceans and beaches, to the oil and gas drilling used to make plastic.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
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The findings confirm a 2019 study that detected microplastics in Lake Tahoe for the first time.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
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Similar to the 2018 IIT Bombay study, the researchers found microplastics in all the salt samples.
—Sharmila Vaidyanathan, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
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Instead of floating into the ocean, most microplastics are captured — and remain — in the bay.
—Karen Hendricks, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
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The most common microplastic was PET, which is often used to make plastic bottles and caps.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 10 June 2022
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Very small pieces, called microplastics, can easily make their way up the food web to humans from fish and other seafood.
—Delger Erdenesanaa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
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For example, the cities of Europe seem to be seeding the Arctic with microplastic.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 11 June 2020
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The heart tissues of cardiac surgery patients were found to be embedded with at least nine kinds of microplastics.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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The human testicle samples had nearly three times the amount of microplastics as the canine samples, the study found.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
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Based on the size, these particles are classified as macro, meso and microplastics.
—Sharmila Vaidyanathan, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
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While eating fish is a key component of the Mediterranean diet, some fish can be high in mercury and microplastics.
—Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
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For humans, the ubiquity of microplastics emerged with the first reports of plastics in drinking water in 2017.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
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Some areas of research include microplastics, microalgae, and creatures that live on the bottom of the lake.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2024
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These initial findings were later used to track microplastics' flow in other hotspots.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
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To date, there is little federal oversight in the United States on microplastics, let alone on nanoplastics.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
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Mohanty said one of the biggest sources of microplastics in wastewater was washing machines.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
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Sludge applied to fields turns out to be a major source of microplastics corrupting the environment.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
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Consuming microplastics is thus a good way to swallow old poisons.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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More than three quarters of people in the U.K. are concerned about the impact of microplastics on the environment and human health, according to a new survey.
—Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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The new study, which examined both canine and human testicles, found microplastics to be present in all tissue samples.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
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Abyssal microplastics appear to sink from the surface of the open ocean, and polystyrene particles increase the bioaccumulation of SSRIs in brine shrimp.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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The remaining 10% were microplastics, about a thousand times larger than nanoplastics.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 Mar. 2024
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Hussain wanted to see for himself what microplastics and nanoplastics might do inside our bodies.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Sep. 2023
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Thompson was the first researcher to use the term microplastics, documenting their ubiquity in a landmark paper in the journal Science in 2004.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2 May 2024
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Over time, that plastic will break down into tiny particles, known as microplastics, which contaminates the air, water, soil and food.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
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