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<span class=slug-vol>Vol. 345</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span
class=slug-issue>no. 6193</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span
class=slug-pages>pp. 144-145</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>
<cite><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-style:normal'>DOI:</span></cite><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=slug-doi>10.1126/science.1254065</span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333300'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.5pt;
margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:12.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Microplastics in the seas<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class=name><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Kara+Lavender+Law&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"><span
style='color:#333333'>Kara Lavender Law</span></a></span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6193/144.short#aff-1"
id=xref-aff-1-1><sup><span style='color:#2E6D8F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
padding:0in'>1</span></sup></a>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span
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href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Richard+C.+Thompson&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"><span
style='color:#333333'>Richard C. Thompson</span></a></span></span><a
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id=xref-aff-2-1><sup><span style='color:#2E6D8F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><sup><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-style:normal'>1</span></sup><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-style:normal'>Department
of Oceanography, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.<a
name=aff-2></a><sup><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>2</span></sup>School
of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK.</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-style:normal'>E-mail:</span><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333;font-style:normal'> </span></span><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-style:normal'><a
href="mailto:klavender@sea.edu"><span style='color:#2E6D8F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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id=p-2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Plastic
debris in the marine environment is more than just an unsightly problem. Images
of beach litter and large floating debris may first come to mind, but much
recent concern about plastic pollution has focused on microplastic particles
too small to be easily detected by eye (see the figure). Microplastics are
likely the most numerically abundant items of plastic debris in the ocean
today, and quantities will inevitably increase, in part because large, single
plastic items ultimately degrade into millions of microplastic pieces.
Microplastics are of environmental concern because their size (millimeters or
smaller) renders them accessible to a wide range of organisms at least as small
as zooplankton, with potential for physical and toxicological harm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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