{"id":16988,"date":"2020-08-20T18:03:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16988"},"modified":"2020-08-20T18:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:33:53","slug":"atlantic-ocean-contains-10-times-more-microplastics-than-previously-thought-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/atlantic-ocean-contains-10-times-more-microplastics-than-previously-thought-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Ocean contains 10 times more microplastics than previously thought: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A study published in Nature Communications has estimated the amount of microplastic pollution in the Atlantic Ocean and put it at 11.6-21.1 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Microplastics: <\/strong>These are plastic debris smaller than 5mm in length or about the size of a sesame seed.<\/li><li><strong>Sources: <\/strong>They can be divided into two main categories according to their source:<ul><li><strong>Primary microplastics:<\/strong><ul><li>Directly released in the environment as small particles<\/li><li><strong>Main sources:<\/strong> laundering of synthetic clothes, abrasion of tyres through driving, intentionally added microplastics in personal care products for example microbeads in facial scrubs.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Secondary microplastics:<\/strong><ul><li>Originate from degradation of larger plastic objects such as plastic bags, bottles or fishing nets.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Effects of Microplastics:<\/strong><ul><li>Microplastics found in the sea can be ingested by marine animals.The plastic then accumulates and can end up in humans through the food chain.<\/li><li>Consumption of plastic by humans is harmful since several chemicals that are used to produce plastics can be carcinogenic.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A study published in Nature Communications has estimated the amount of microplastic pollution in the Atlantic Ocean and put it at 11.6-21.1 million tonnes. Facts: Microplastics: These are plastic debris smaller than 5mm in length or about the size of a sesame seed. Sources: They can be divided into two main categories according to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/atlantic-ocean-contains-10-times-more-microplastics-than-previously-thought-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atlantic Ocean contains 10 times more microplastics than previously thought: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5107,4635],"class_list":["post-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-microplastics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704632123},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}