Sentence examples for plastic fragments from inspiring English sources

In some seas plastic fragments are more plentiful than plankton.

The plastic fragments get small enough that even plankton can manage to have a taste.

The researchers collected small plastic fragments in nets, while larger pieces were observed from boats.

Using the samples he had collected around Plymouth he showed microscopic plastic fragments to be abundant in the water column.

It seems pretty obvious when you see a landfill or a the insides of a seabird bursting with plastic fragments.

By dragging a fine mesh net behind his research vessel Alguita, a 50-foot aluminum catamaran, Mr. Moore is able to collect small plastic fragments.

It is not news that microplastic – which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines as plastic fragments 5mm or smaller – is ubiquitous in all five major ocean gyres.

A lot of the microplastic debris is washed into wastewater treatment plants, where the filtering process does capture many of the plastic fragments.

Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium recently calculated that shellfish lovers are eating up to 11,000 plastic fragments in their seafood each year.

Plastic fragments weighing 0.4g per litre of water were added, and corals were tested for their reaction over different time periods over the course of a month.

If the object type of a fragment could not be determined, we classified the piece as either hard plastic fragment or film fragment depending on its wall thickness and flexibility34.