[Link] Microplastics in Our Food Is No Joke. Just Kidding, It's Funny as Hell

Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com

What’s less than 5 millimeters long, toxic, and literally everywhere? The answer, unfortunately, is microplastics: Little pieces of plastic pollution that enter our ecosystem by way of body washes, plastic water bottles, fishing nets, tires, and grocery bags, among other things.

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[Link] Microplastics Are Everywhere: Land, Sea And Air

Read: 17/11/2021 hackaday.com

Plastics took off in the 20th century, with the new class of materials finding all manner of applications that metal, wood and paper simply couldn’t deliver on. Every field from electronics to the packaging of food found that plastics could play a role.

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[Link] Baby turtles ingest more plastic than adults due to how they eat, where they live

Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Baby turtles are more likely to consume plastic waste polluting the ocean than adults because of their eating habits, an international team of researchers has found.

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