Large pieces of plastic, usually >20 mm, found in the environment, especially in the sea and ocean.
Category: Plastics
Synthetic materials polluting ecosystems and oceans
Microplastics
Small pieces of plastic, usually smaller than 5mm, with a growing volume being found in the environment, including the sea, and in food and drinking water.
Nanoplastics
Very small pieces of plastic, typically sized between 1 nm and 1 μm, of which a growing volume are being found in the environment.
Plastic Footprint
A measurement of how much plastic a company produces and how much escapes into the environment.
Plastic Leakage
The potential amount of macro- and microplastics that are not kept in a circular loop or properly managed at their end-of-life, and thus leak into the environment
