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    The disaster is only a matter of time. How scientific instruments respond to the microplastics crisis

    • Last Update: 2021-12-13
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    【Hot attention of Chemical Machinery Equipment Network ] With the gradual evolution of the plastic restriction order into a plastic ban, no matter whether you can feel the change happening or not, at least we are indeed trying to stop the generation of plastic pollution from the root cause, but, to be honest, in For a long time in the past, plastics have indeed destroyed our living environment and threatened our health in ways that we can see or invisible.

     
    Hot attention of Chemical Machinery Equipment NetworkChemical machinery and equipment
    When it comes to plastics, many people may think of white pollution.
    As a well-known phenomenon of environmental pollution, the wrong white pollution can cause serious pollution to the ecological environment and directly harm humans.
    Even because of white pollution, plastic bags once changed from a "great invention of the twentieth century" to a "two".
    The terrible invention of the tenth century".
    And it is precisely because people are aware of the seriousness and source of white pollution that plastic restrictions, including today's ban on plastics, have appeared in our lives.

     

    However, white pollution is not a plastic pollution problem that threatens us.
    In fact, even under such restrictions, plastic pollution still penetrates into our lives in other forms.
    This form is microplastics.

     

    The emergence of the concept of microplastics can be traced back to 2004.
    At the beginning, it referred to plastic debris particles with a diameter of less than 5 mm deposited in ocean waters.
    Due to the uneven shape of such particles and the naked eye may not be able to see clearly, so microplastics are now also called "PM2.
    5 in water.
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    However, although the concept of microplastics has been around for a long time, it was only in recent years that the public realized its seriousness, and most people have actually become familiar with the news of microplastic residues found in marine animals in the past few years.
    The word microplastics.

     

    To make matters worse, it is actually very difficult to solve the problem of microplastics.
    Because before this, there are many daily necessities that can cause microplastic pollution in our lives, such as contact lenses, some cheap toothpaste or facial cleanser.
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    And for many people, the microplastics produced by these daily necessities are very important for them.
    It's hard to predict and hard to avoid.

     

    However, because of this, it may only be a matter of time before microplastics become a disaster.
    Recently, two foreign media reports on microplastics touched people’s hearts: The United Press Press published a report on December 28, 2020, which mentioned that more than 50 studies from 2014 to 2020 showed that shellfish became a major source of microplastic pollution.
    Disaster area; the British New Scientist website published a report on December 30, 2020, which mentioned more and more evidence that we are eating, drinking and inhaling microplastics, and when microplastics get smaller and smaller, they may enter Cells, thereby further harming our body.

     

      So are we really using microplastics? Obviously not.
    In fact, since 2015, many countries have begun to restrict or ban the addition of microplastics in skin care and personal care products.
    Including tires, furniture and industrial products, many products with microplastics that may be spalled due to friction have also begun to improve their processes to avoid the production of large amounts of microplastics in use.
    In the existing treatment of marine microplastics, the maturity of satellite remote sensing technology and near-infrared spectroscopy technology has also made it possible to capture marine microplastics.
    So why are there still endless reports of microplastics? The reason may lie in the intensity of detection.

     

      In the face of the microplastics crisis, in addition to governance more important protection, or to root.
    At present, many sources of microplastics are actually emissions from daily life.
    From the perspective of market monitoring, there are still plastic microbeads in cosmetics.
    From the perspective of fundamental governance, ensuring that the daily necessities circulating on the market do not contain or contain as few plastic particles as possible will naturally play an important role in the governance of microplastics.
    Therefore, increasing the intensity of microplastics detection in the daily necessities such as cosmetics that may contain plastic particles is of great significance to the prevention and control of microplastics pollution.

     

      In general, if you want to eliminate microplastic pollution, the key is to reduce the emission of microplastics from the details.

     

      Original title: The disaster is only a matter of time, how scientific instruments respond to the microplastics crisis
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