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Date of Publication: May 13
Year of Publication: 2024
Publication City: Waukesha, WI
Publisher: Kalmbach Media Co.
Journal: Discover Magazine
“Nanoplastics are attracting growing concern thanks to recent technological advances that have made researchers more able to detect and analyze them.”
It’s become common to read that microplastics – little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser – are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food and human bodies. Now a new term is gaining attention: nanoplastics. These particles are even tinier than microplastics – so small that they’re invisible to the naked eye.
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