The word “microplastics” appeared for the first time in 2004, coined by Richard Thompson, now a marine biology professor at the University of Plymouth.
Over the past 22 years, microplastics have gained increasing attention from researchers eager to understand their impacts on the environment and the human body.
But how much do we actually know about microplastics?
Euronews Tech Talks collected this and more questions from the audience and posed them to Heather Leslie, an independent scientist from Amsterdam, and Francesco Regoli, vice rector for research at the Polytechnic University of Marche.
What are microplastics?
