Examples of using Microplastics in English and their translations into Chinese
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The researchers believe that some of the microplastics came from the packaging or the packaging process.
Given that human exposure to microplastics is widespread, results from animal studies are certainly a cause for concern and an important factor for risk assessment.
Microplastics include broken-down plastic waste, synthetic fibres and beads found in personal hygiene products.
These studies highlighted a list of common food and beverages containing microplastics, such as drinking water, beer, shellfish and salt.
They also intend to continue to rigorously confirm the non-toxicity of any chemical compounds occurring as intermediates or by-products during microplastics decomposition.
For years we have been doing microplastics studies the same way[by] using a net to collect samples.
In the atmospheric samples they collected, a large amount of microplastics was found, and the measured daily deposition rate of microplastics was 365/m2.
The microplastics are often consumed by small marine creatures like plankton and mussels, which are subsequently eaten by progressively larger animals.
Microplastics are entering oceans through two main mechanisms: by traveling along with wastewater, and as a product of larger plastic being broken down.
Current studies show that microplastics are increasingly being found in food, e.g. in sea salt or fish.
Findings can enable helpful conclusions to be drawn as regards the effect of microplastics on the ecological system and man.
Previous research has estimated that about 30 percent of the volume of microplastics polluting oceans, lakes and rivers come from tire wear.
Microplastics are also known to contain and absorb toxic chemicals, and research on wild animals shows these toxins are released in the body.
In October of this year, microplastics were discovered in humans for the first time.
If these microplastics enter the body, toxins can accumulate in fatty tissues.
Laboratory studies find some physical and chemical effects from microplastics exposures, but the findings vary by plastic type, shape and size.
Scientists believe microplastics could move up the food chain as trophy fish, such as lake trout, eat round gobies.
Microplastics interest me because they are now turning up everywhere and we know virtually nothing about how they might impact human health.
There is no universally agreed definition of microplastics but they are generally considered to be smaller than half a millimetre across.
The fear that these microplastics can enter the human body and cause harm is not backed by science.