How to pronounce“microplastic”in English

Microplastics are these tiny fragments of plastic that wear off the products we use.

Microplastics are the asbestos of our time.

freshwater microplastic sampling would be a great one uh roadkill you there is a worldwide roadkill aspect we're doing

Those microplastics wash through water treatment into the environment.

Then it's microplastic.

on the issue of microplastic.

on the planet for microplastics in this map each of the different size circles represents how much plastic we found in

We've got microplastics now breaking down, and you know, kind of in all our food and all kinds of, it's like that is a fricking disaster.

Because we ingest microplastics and everything we eat and drink.

There's 268 spectra from microplastic.

And while I would agree that microplastics are a big deal, only reporting on the upper range to make the situation feel more urgent

do have projects here um so the microplastics project Abby recently floated the length of the Hudson River

I think another potential problem of microplastics is not the particles themselves, but the fact that other pollutants, other external pollutants may be able to bind to them

And that brings us to the conversation of microplastic, which is a relatively newer problem we're having to have in sustainable fashion.

But everything that you pretty much know about ocean microplastic is from studies done at the surface, which is an accessible place.

It is also one of the biggest contributors to microplastic in our ocean.

Bottled water is our single largest known source of microplastic ingestion.

of carcinogens, microplastics, forever chemicals, uh uh uh glyphosate, and any of these kinds of

So they might really want to sound the alarm about microplastics, in order to bring people into their broader mission.

We're just starting to learn the damage that microplastics are doing not just for the planet, but for our own health.

sample from the entire world that doesn't have microplastics in it.

But what's really fascinating for me is that microplastics that break down are found in the underwater.

they travel collect one liter samples of water for our microplastics project so for those of you who haven't heard of them have you guys all heard of

there's uh another technology we use for microplastics uh called um uh well

for every spot we had available um and others like the microplastics project

I think some of the key issues with microplastics, and especially because of their really small size, they can get into parts of our bodies that other particles,

means that my body is only able to remove toxins like microplastics at 10% the rate of the average person.

Every day I am learning more about what these microplastics are doing to me and to us.

They are also dramatically better for our health because any microplastics from them, will break down naturally in the body.

No, but you still have all the microplastic problems and the visual waste that ends up surfacing on our coasts.

And so we're thinking about this in the North Pacific in terms of microplastic pollution.

And then the other thing that I really want to explore through this installation was microplastics.

And so one of the alarming things for us is that, if you thought microplastic in the ocean was a problem, it's a lot worse of a problem

So 1,000 years for climate-- if we were to do the same kind of thing and magically turn off our plastic and microplastic pollution switch,

It's so funny, it really reminds me of all the microplastic in my brain.

And a headline that says "you might eat between a tenth of a gram and 5 grams of microplastics every week" is not going to get the clicks.

So don’t immediately text everyone I know and tell them that they could book a flight with all the microplastics inside of them.

PCBs, petrochemicals, microplastics, dioxins, endocrine disruptors-- this is your meal when you eat fish.

make more sustainable products as a result of the knowledge they've gained from ours and from others work on microplastics so again tangible impact

they then have to go through a training that might be watching a training video like this one for our microplastics

mentioned the idea of virtual reality and having people actually be able to go through filling their microplastics

with each volunteers expedition to make sure that they know what they're doing um we've got for our microplastics

Companies have basically replaced sort of organic materials in facial cleansers and body scrubs and even toothpaste with microplastics.

I think there's a second problem, and that problem is microplastics.

There's more and more data coming out now about microplastics and the impact on human health fair, that's a huge place to study.

One of the things we've learned about plastic in the ocean, which through our work with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, is that most of the microplastic

Manufacturers can shred, melt, and reform other plastics, but the polymers degrade, so the quality is worse and the process generates microplastics.

And here we can see the information in its original context, which stated, “humans may ingest 0.1–5 g of microplastics weekly”

We've done research for the last couple of years that shows fish are actually eating these microplastics in the environment.