{"id":241,"date":"2020-04-16T02:44:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:31:36","slug":"group-4-page-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/group-4\/group-4-page-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Microplastics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">So, what are microplastics?<\/h2>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;small plastic pieces less than 5mm long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life\u201d (National Ocean Service)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Here are some of the MANY products in which they can be found in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laundry and dishwasher pods\/tablets (the scrubbing agents in these products are made\u00a0of microplastics)<\/li>\n<li>Tea Bags (many contain a polypropylene \u2018skeleton\u2019)<\/li>\n<li>Synthetic clothing (polyester, spandex, and nylon all shed microplastics every wash)<\/li>\n<li>Larger plastics (as they break down in the environment and add to micro plastic pollution)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-257 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-15-at-11.04.51-PM-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-15-at-11.04.51-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-15-at-11.04.51-PM-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-15-at-11.04.51-PM.png 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Here is a list of additional, common products that may contain microplastics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Paint<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tires<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Wet wipes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Glitter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cigarette butts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tennis balls<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Facial scrubs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Toothpastes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Face wash<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Makeup<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Sunscreen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Deodorant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Nail polish<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what are microplastics? \u201c&#8230;small plastic pieces less than 5mm long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life\u201d (National Ocean Service) Here are some of the MANY products in which they can be found in: Laundry and dishwasher pods\/tablets (the scrubbing agents in these products are made\u00a0of microplastics) Tea Bags (many contain <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/group-4\/group-4-page-2\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1028,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/healthy-oceans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}