Thompson (2004) along with his collaborators were the first researchers to coin the term ‘‘microplastics” (MPs) in their paper, “Lost at sea: Where is all the plastic?”. Microplastics are defined as fragments smaller than 5 milli meter in ...
Our study is the first to assess the presence of microplastics in the digestive tracts of multiple individuals from a range of both cetacean and pinniped species. At least one microplastic, which was confirmed using FTIR, was discovered in every animal with an average of 5.5 particles per anima...
(2) placing the frozen coarse particles and steel balls in a tissue grinder to vibrate, and sieving the crushed materials by a screen to obtain millimetre-grade microplastics;(3) freezing the millimetre-scale microplastics in liquid nitrogen, and then vibrating the microplastics in a tissue ...
each of which results in different final fibre diameters. The most commonly reported approach to produce the middle filter layer of the medical mask material is melt blowing, while the spun-bond process is used to produce the inner and outer layers of the masks [9]. ...
Microplastics are very tiny particles present in our personal care, home, toiletries, gaming, and industrial products such as toothpaste, synthetic clothing, tennis balls, laundry and dish washer pods/tablets, cigarette buts, glitters, wet wipes, tea bags, takeaway cups, cosmetics, hand cleansers,...
the natural environment. Firstly, household washing is simulated by considering the main fabric type, the number of steel balls used in the washing, washing temperature, washing time and other influencing factors. An orthogonal test of the mixing level of the four factors is designed by selecting...