The background is a landscape showing grass, hills and sky. In the centre is a pile of everyday plastic items including a chair with a foam cushion, a laundry basket, plastic bottles, plastic rubbish bags, plant pots and buckets. Some of the items have clouds of particles coming off them that become stick and ball chemical structures further away from the objects, suggesting the movement of nano- and microplastic particles from these items into the environment.

Out now: our latest volume Microplastics and Nanoplastics in the Environment offers an overview of the processes that are causing the distribution of micro- and nanoplastics in the environment, their overall fate and the impact they are having.

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