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  2. Microplastics and human health - Wikipedia

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    The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues. Microplastics, defined as plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm, and even smaller particles such as nanoplastics (NP), particles smaller than 1000 nm in diameter (0.001 mm or 1 μm ...

  3. Microplastics in our organs could be tied to disease, Chinese ...

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    Microplastics that have been found in human organs have “alarming links” to adverse health impacts, including lesions, cervical cancer, and other diseases, researchers suggest. Now, an ...

  4. Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics, new study ...

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    A 2018 study found that tap water has fewer microplastics than bottled water, making it a likely better bet. Filtering your water is another possible way to decrease microplastics in drinking water.

  5. Microplastic remediation - Wikipedia

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    Microplastic remediation refers to environmental remediation techniques focused on the removal, treatment and containment of microplastics (small plastic particles) from environmental media such as soil, water, or sediment. [1] Microplastics can be removed using physical, chemical, or biological techniques. [2]

  6. Similarly, microplastics were found in all 45 samples for a study examining patients with knee or hip surgery. Yet another study examined 312 patients who had fatty deposits, or plaques, removed ...

  7. Microplastics - Wikipedia

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    For example, microplastics can be found on sandy beaches [145] and surface waters [146] as well as in the water column and deep sea sediment. Microplastics are also found within the many other types of marine particles such as dead biological material (tissue and shells) and some soil particles (blown in by wind and carried to the ocean by rivers).

  8. Plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    A 2017 study found that 83% of tap water samples taken around the world contained plastic pollutants. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] This was the first study to focus on global drinking water pollution with plastics, [ 98 ] and showed that with a contamination rate of 94%, tap water in the United States was the most polluted, followed by Lebanon and India .

  9. Plastic pollution in the Mediterranean sea - Wikipedia

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    Plastics accounts for 80% of waste dispersed in the marine and coastal environment of the Mediterranean Sea. [24] Recent studies focus on the types of plastics found and primarily on the issue of microplastics, both at a global but also at a regional level, as in the case of the Mediterranean Sea, which was identified as a "target hotspot of the world" due to its amounts of microplastics ...