provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US.Trillions of are floating in the world’s oceans, from surface waters to the . These particles, known as microplastics, typically form when larger plastic objects such as shopping bags and food containers break down.Researchers are concerned about microplastics because they are minuscule, widely distributed and easy for wildlife to consume, . We study and , and wanted to understand the scale of this problem. In a newly published study that we conducted with ecologist , we examined how marine fish – including species consumed by...…provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US.Trillions of are floating in the world’s oceans, from surface waters to the . These particles, known as microplastics, typically form when larger plastic objects such as shopping bags and food containers break down.Researchers are concerned about microplastics because they are minuscule, widely distributed and easy for wildlife to consume, . We study and , and wanted to understand the scale of this problem. In a newly published study that we conducted with ecologist , we examined how marine fish – including species consumed by...WW…