How to Use microplastic in a Sentence

microplastic

noun

• The patch is made of both bigger pieces of debris and microplastics.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
• In half of the brands tested, researchers found more than 1,000 pieces of microplastic per liter.
  — Joseph Winters / Grist, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
• The threat of microplastics to D.C. drinking water is not clear.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• And this is clearly showing that microplastic is going into the sea and back out of the sea.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
• From the microplastics in our blood, to the plastic bottles clogging our oceans and beaches, to the oil and gas drilling used to make plastic.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• The findings confirm a 2019 study that detected microplastics in Lake Tahoe for the first time.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
• Similar to the 2018 IIT Bombay study, the researchers found microplastics in all the salt samples.
  — Sharmila Vaidyanathan, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
• Instead of floating into the ocean, most microplastics are captured — and remain — in the bay.
  — Karen Hendricks, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• The most common microplastic was PET, which is often used to make plastic bottles and caps.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 10 June 2022
• Very small pieces, called microplastics, can easily make their way up the food web to humans from fish and other seafood.
  — Delger Erdenesanaa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• For example, the cities of Europe seem to be seeding the Arctic with microplastic.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 11 June 2020
• The heart tissues of cardiac surgery patients were found to be embedded with at least nine kinds of microplastics.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Based on the size, these particles are classified as macro, meso and microplastics.
  — Sharmila Vaidyanathan, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
• While eating fish is a key component of the Mediterranean diet, some fish can be high in mercury and microplastics.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
• For humans, the ubiquity of microplastics emerged with the first reports of plastics in drinking water in 2017.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
• Some areas of research include microplastics, microalgae, and creatures that live on the bottom of the lake.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2024
• These initial findings were later used to track microplastics' flow in other hotspots.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
• To date, there is little federal oversight in the United States on microplastics, let alone on nanoplastics.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• Mohanty said one of the biggest sources of microplastics in wastewater was washing machines.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Sludge applied to fields turns out to be a major source of microplastics corrupting the environment.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• Consuming microplastics is thus a good way to swallow old poisons.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• More than three quarters of people in the U.K. are concerned about the impact of microplastics on the environment and human health, according to a new survey.
  — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The new study, which examined both canine and human testicles, found microplastics to be present in all tissue samples.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
• The remaining 10% were microplastics, about a thousand times larger than nanoplastics.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 Mar. 2024
• Hussain wanted to see for himself what microplastics and nanoplastics might do inside our bodies.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Sep. 2023
• Thompson was the first researcher to use the term microplastics, documenting their ubiquity in a landmark paper in the journal Science in 2004.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2 May 2024
• Over time, that plastic will break down into tiny particles, known as microplastics, which contaminates the air, water, soil and food.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• So the researchers set a goal to prove their substances don't make microplastics over time because they're really being broken down by the microbes in the environment, Pomeroy said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 May 2024
• Glitter has long been a hot topic in the microplastics conversation, including the one happening in the United States.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 17 Oct. 2023
• In fact, research suggests the largest producer of microplastics into our atmosphere is our oceans.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024