Microplastics are extremely small pieces of plastic debris in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste.
Researchers have generally referred to pieces of plasticsplastic smaller andthan about 5mm as microplastics. Another way of describing this is to measure plastics relative to the units. So microplastics are between one micrometer and 1,000 micrometers wide.

Microplastics have turned up pretty much than thateverywhere and researchers have looked for them from the bottom of the oceans to the stomachs of whales, seabirds and humans. We should be worried about this plastic diet both in terms of our health and for the health of the environment. Those who eat, breathe air and share in the occasional drink of water are unwitting consumers of microplastics. Microplastics are also betweenused in triangular nylon tea bags and people who utilise them are also at risk from consuming plastics. One study revealed that they could be getting more than eleven billion particles of plastic with their tea.

There are general concerns about the moregrowing effects of microplastics on the environment, especially towards marine wildlife. These animals might get entangled in the pieces of plastic while some plastics may even end up in our stomachs as well as litter the coastlines. There is evidence that plastic accumulating in the stomachs of animals can also suppress their appetite.

Hence, it is important for everyone to play their part in reducing the usage of plastics by cutting out unnecessary plastic use, including single-use items, and substituting it where we can. In addition, researchers too can start focusing more on studies that
investigate the varying concentrationsthe varying concentrations of particle sizes of plastics that are important to humans and wildlife instead of doing more research on which products that emit plastics.