{"id":13973,"date":"2025-02-01T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T02:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13973"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:21:30","slug":"about-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Microplastics Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A first-of-its-kind study commissioned by the Delhi government has detected microplastics in groundwater samples across the Capital.<\/p>\n<h2>About Microplastics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Microplastics are <strong>small pieces of plastics,<\/strong> usually <strong>smaller than 5 mm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>persistent, very mobile<\/strong> and hard to remove from nature.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>two categories<\/strong> of microplastics: primary and secondary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Primary microplastics<\/strong> are t<strong>iny particles designed for commercial use<\/strong>, such as cosmetics, as well as microfibers shed from clothing and other textiles, such as fishing nets.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>They <strong>enter the environment directly<\/strong> through any of various channels\u2014for example, product use, unintentional loss from spills during manufacturing or transport, or abrasion during washing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondary microplastics<\/strong> are particles that <strong>result from the breakdown of larger plastic items,<\/strong> such as water bottles.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>This <strong>breakdown is caused by exposure to environmental factors<\/strong>, mainly the sun\u2019s radiation and ocean waves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Microplastics Impacts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Once in the environment, microplastics <strong>do not biodegrade<\/strong> and tend to a<strong>ccumulate and persist.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They can be ingested by marine organisms, leading to potential <strong>harm to aquatic life and bioaccumulation along the food chain.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They can also <strong>carry toxic chemicals and pollutants<\/strong>, posing additional risks to organisms and ecosystems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Microplastics FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the main source of microplastics?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Where do primary microplastics come from? Microplastics come from synthetic textiles, city dust, tires, road markings, marine coatings, personal care products and engineered plastic pellets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What countries have banned microplastics?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Netherlands was the first country to introduce a ban on microbeads in cosmetic products in 2014. Several countries, including Australia, Canada, Italy, Korea, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK and the US have followed suit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Is microplastics banned in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. There is currently no regulation of microbeads in India , although the plastic waste management rules are regularly amended and there are some bans on single use plastic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/study-finds-microplastics-in-delhis-groundwater\/article69165906.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics are small pieces of plastics, usually smaller than 5 mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}