Single-use plastics: Source, impact and control of microplastics
India TV NewsIn the second explainer of the anti-plastic series, where we are going to talk about a sub-category of the major pollution causing single-use plastics: microplastics. Though majorly a by-product of single-use plastics, microplastics are also produced intentionally to be used in many products that we use on an everyday basis. MUST READ | Single-use plastics: Origin, scale and the real problem Sources of Microplastics: Single-use plastics -- as a direct form of microplastics Clothing industry -- in the form of microplastic fibres Cosmetic industry -- in the form of microbeads. Avoid single-use plastics as much as you can Single use plastic Single-use plastics are one of the biggest sources of microplastics as they are often run down by the water, broken down by physical action and disintegrate into smaller pieces under the sun and turn into microplastics.
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