Sentence examples for particles of plastic from inspiring English sources

And last week, Johnson & Johnson recalled 200,000 bottles of liquid Motrin for infants because they may contain tiny particles of plastic.

"Many people, even smokers, are not aware that the cigarette filter is comprised of thousands of little particles of plastic," says Nicolas Mallos, director of Trash Free Seas Program at the Ocean Conservancy in Washington DC.

Birds consume toxic particles of plastic.

While the image of a sea turtle with a plastic straw lodged deep in its nostril is an enduring emblem of the impacts of plastic pollution, tiny particles of plastic are the more pervasive and insidious form of pollution in the ocean.

Big animals (e.g. turtles, whales, seals, and sea lions) can be trapped by nets and films and eat the small particles of plastics which may block their digestive systems.

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This biological community starts with particles of degraded plastic no bigger than grains of salt.

Notably, mean size of plastic particles was higher than mean grain size of the sediment.

That's three orders of magnitude larger than some counts of plastic particles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The separation of different kind of plastic particles is required in the process of waste recycling.

An analytical model is developed that correctly predicts break-up of large particles and plastic deformation of the smaller ones.