Plastic and microplastic: macropblems

If you look around and try to guess what materials are the objects that you use every day made of, you will see that most of them are plastic. Food containers, such as bottles of water and soft drinks, shopping bags, shampoo containers, disposable plates, glasses, cutlery, straws, the pen, the ruler, the folder, the glue stick, the mobile phone, the computer, the remote control, chairs and tables, the clothes made of synthetic material. The list goes on: we are living in a period that has been called the "Plasticene", the era of plastic. 

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