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  • nanoplastic — plastic particles 100 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

    I hate this type of dumbed down description with the actual info removed. It’s like when someone describes the capacity of a hard drive in terms of “libraries of congress” or “feet of stacked paper” instead of gigabytes or terabytes. We all use hard drives and know what a terabyte is, so give us the plain info.

    Anyway, clicking the Nature link shows that nanoplastic means less than 1 micron diameter. That’s much simpler than making us look up the diameter of a human hair to find out how big the plastic is.