Plastic
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Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic materials composed primarily of polymers. Their defining characteristic, plasticity, allows them to be molded, extruded, or pressed into a diver
Household items made of various types of plastics
A plastic handle from a kitchen utensil, deformed by heat and partially melted
A Slovnaft facility in Bratislava, Slovakia
A SOCAR Polymer polypropylene plant in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
Microplastics
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Microplastics are "synthetic solid particulate matter or polymeric matrices, with regular or irregular shape and with size ranging from 1 μm to 5 mm, of either primary or secondary manufacturing origi
Micro plastics of diverse shapes in sediments from four rivers in Germany—white arrowheads indicate aluminium, glass and sand (white bars represent 1 mm for scale)
Microplastic samples.
Microplastic fibers identified in the marine environment.
Photodegraded green plastic bag adjacent to hiking trail in about 2,000 pieces of 1 to 25 mm size after three months' exposure outdoors.