What Are Microplastics?

Science

What are microplastics? How do they harm the environment? Did you know that nearly 2,000 garbage trucks worth of plastic end up in the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the world every day.

Smaller than a sesame seed, between 15 and 51 trillion microplastics can be found in surface water worldwide – posing an increasing threat of pollution.

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