Opening plastic packaging generates microplastics, study says
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 20, 2020
Simply opening a plastic package can introduce microplastics into the atmosphere and be ingested or inhaled, a new study indicates. Chinese scientists, funded by the Australian environmental research company CRC CARE, studied the travel of microplastics - plastic pieces less than 0.2 millimeters in length - after plastic bags of food and plastic drink bottles are opened, as well as pl