How to Use microplastic in a Sentence

microplastic

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• 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
• Meanwhile, the tiny fibers shed from polyester clothes are called microplastics.
  — Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 13 June 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
• And as for microplastics, keep an eye out for evolving research.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
• 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
• The human testicle samples had nearly three times the amount of microplastics as the canine samples, the study found.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
• Based on the size, these particles are classified as macro, meso and microplastics.
  — Sharmila Vaidyanathan, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
• The full extent of microplastics’s effects on human health still isn’t fully known.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024
• The findings don’t come as a surprise to the team, considering the ubiquity of microplastics.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The ocean releases microplastics into the air through surface froth and wave action.
  — Leslie Hart, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.
  — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 July 2024
• What too is the cost to the environment when rain and water used to clean the fields carry microplastics and PFAS into our sewers, oceans and drinking water?
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024
• But research into how microplastics affect the human body is still in its early stages.
  — Adriana Perez, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 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
• One recent study showed that exposure to microplastics through drinking water over the course of three weeks caused cognitive changes in mouse brains.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 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

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024