23 Mar 2020 --- Opening plastic packages can catapult up to 75,000 microplastics across 3 meters, a new study funded by the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) has found. The research team found evidence that tearing open chocolate bags, cutting sealing tapes and twist-opening bottle caps generates microplastics from broken junction and cap abrasion.
