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Microplastic ban

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If you have been paying any attention to the news, you should know that there is a huge environmental problem resulting from plastic. This problem has two different sides to it, which are related to each other. One is plastic that is not properly taken care off and ends up everywhere, but specially at sea. These plastic pieces that range all sizes and shapes, originate from everything we use, toys, plastic bags, bottles, coffee cups, drinking straws... You name it, you'll find it floating in our oceans and slowly replacing the sand in our beaches. These plastic pieces cause all kinds of problems to our environment and scientists constantly find animals that are killed by either mistakenly ingesting or getting trapped in plastic. The other problem are microplastics. These are tiny pieces of plastic that are so small they are invisible to the naked eye and they are everywhere: in the water we drink, the air we breathe and even inside our bodies. Scientists believe that the tiniest...