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[1] [2] Microplastics and nanoplastics result from the breakdown or photodegradation of plastic waste in surface waters, rivers or oceans. Recently, scientists have uncovered nanoplastics in heavy snow, more specifically about 3,000 tons that cover Switzerland yearly. [3]
Microplastics are tiny shards of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters. They come from everything from tires, which are then broken down into smaller pieces, to microbeads, a plastic found in beauty ...
As of 2020 microplastics had been detected in freshwater systems including marshes, streams, ponds, lakes, and rivers in (Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia). [ 150 ] [ 165 ] Samples collected across 29 Great Lakes tributaries from six states in the United States were found to contain plastic particles, 98% of which were ...
That goes right into the river,” added McKinney. This led us to ask, what can we do to curb the microplastics issue? Lizzie Gaver with Keep Knoxville Beautiful suggests reducing first, then ...
In 2018, the river suddenly began to change color due to gold mining. The river recorded the highest level of microplastics ever reported in river water globally in early 2024. [16] [17] Plastic pollution, heavy metals and cyanide contamination as a result of illegal gold mining, and human generated waste. [18] Threatening the Osun Osogbo ...
The headline from Alex Kuffner’s Sept. 2 news story about the recent University of Rhode Island study on plastics pollution summed things up perfectly: "URI researchers find 'shocking' amounts ...
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 ...
Microplastics are turning up in unusual places increasingly often as they filter into nearly every facet of life on Earth. They’ve been discovered in drinking water, food, air and even in blood. ...