Microplastic pollution (marine)

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the environmental-chemistry subtree

Thompson 2004 'microplastic' coined; <5 mm fragments in oceans 5.25 trillion pieces (Eriksen 2014); ingestion by zooplankton -> trophic-transfer; HDPE/PP/PET decade-scale persistence.

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