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    This document provides an overview of microplastics, including their types, sources, and impacts. It defines microplastics as plastic particles less than 5mm in size. Microplastics can be primary, directly entering the environment in small sizes, or secondary from breakdown of larger plastics. Common microplastic types include fibers, pellets, films, fragments, foam, and microbeads. Microplastics can change beach properties, be ingested by animals, and act as vectors for harmful pathogens in marine environments. Studies have found microplastic ingestion in zooplankton and stranded seabirds.

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    This document provides an overview of microplastics, including their types, sources, and impacts. It defines microplastics as plastic particles less than 5mm in size. Microplastics can be primary, directly entering the environment in small sizes, or secondary from breakdown of larger plastics. Common microplastic types include fibers, pellets, films, fragments, foam, and microbeads. Microplastics can change beach properties, be ingested by animals, and act as vectors for harmful pathogens in marine environments. Studies have found microplastic ingestion in zooplankton and stranded seabirds.

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    Introduction to

    Microplastics
    Plastic pollution size categories

    Macro Meso Micro Mini-micro

    <1mm - 1m
     
    <25 - 5mm
    25mm <5 - 1mm
     
    TYPES OF MICROPLASTICS | Overview
    Fibres Pellets

    PRIMARY
    MICROPLASTICS
    Those which enter the
    Films Fragments
    marine environment in
    their « micro » size

    SECONDARY
    Microbeads
    MICROPLASTICS
    Foam
    Resulting from the
    breakdown of larger
    plastics in the marine
    environment
    TYPES OF MICROPLASTICS | Fibres
    TYPES OF MICROPLASTICS | Nurdles
    TYPES OF MICROPLASTICS | Fragments, films and
    foams
    TYPES OF MICROPLASTICS | Microbeads

    Ingredients to avoid:
    • Polyethylene
    • Polypropylene
    • Polyethylene terephthalate
    • Polymethyl methacrylate

    Sandblasting

    Image: Adam Zyglis / The Buffalo News


    Source: IUCN , Primary
    Microplastics in the
    Oceans, 2017)
    IMPACTS OF MICROPLASTICS | Overview

    Changing
    Ingestion by
    properties of
    animals
    beaches

    Vectors for
    Magnet for
    harmful
    toxins
    pathogens
    IMPACTS OF MICROPLASTICS | Ingestion

    Cole et al., (2013) :


    microplastic ingestion by
    zooplankon 

    Acampora et al. (2014) : stranded short-tailed


    shearwaters

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