Attribute of Micro/Nanoplastics and Their Characterization Progress
Plastics have outgrown most man-made materials and have been a part of human daily life.At the same time,they have posed a serious threat to human and the environment.The discarded plastic waste undergoes gradual degradation processes that break plastic into smaller micro-or submicro-fragments,which we called microplastics(MPs)and nanoplastics(NPs)respectively.Here,we provide an overview of the general attributes of micro/nanoplastics in natural environments and analytical techniques commonly used for their analysis.