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单词 microplastic
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microplastic

/ˈmʌɪkrəʊplastɪk/
(also microplastics)
noun [mass noun]
Extremely small pieces of plastic debris in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste: we dump huge amounts of plastic waste into the ocean every year, much of it ending up as microplastic studies reported microplastics inside fish in the English Channel and harbour seals in the Netherlands [as modifier]: microplastic pollution is a strain to lake and river ecosystems...
  • Over time plastic debris eventually fragments into tiny particles creating 'plastic plankton' or 'microplastic,' which is a serious long-term concern, particularly for marine food webs.
  • He said a single product could contain hundreds of thousands of microplastic particles that would likely persist for decades and be ingested by a vast range of organisms.
  • Most studies of ocean microplastic focus on the debris that floats at the sea surface, but this leaves other potential collections of plastic unaccounted for.
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