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And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

And then there’s the plastic waste we can’t see: microplastics, whittled by sun, wind, and waves into bits so small that some are visible only under a microscope. Scientists are just beginning ...

Therefore, it is quite important to estimate total microplastic exposure from chewing gum in the human body ... released microplastics. The samples were then observed under a microscope, with ...