Fill in the Blanks Microplastic gap fillOnline version Put these words into the spaces in the text below. by Raquel Juan Baeza 1 toilet more shellfish oysters garbage microplastics seafood seafood recycle conducted health biologist usually marine plastic alternatives Professor worse pieces researchers People who eat may be also eating tiny pieces of . The small pieces of plastic are called . They are tiny pieces of plastic from the waste and that are in the seas and oceans . They are less than a millimeter wide . They are becoming more and more common in seafood such as and mussels as well as other kinds of . Scientists say there are more than five trillion of microplastic in our oceans . More and are being added every day . Richard Thompson , a marine at Exeter University , said : " Hundreds of organisms encounter plastic at the sea surface or in the water ? and many of those encounters are harmful if not fatal . " Researchers from the University of Ghent in Belgium a study into microplastics and marine life . They believe people eat up to 11 , 000 pieces of plastic in their food each year . The said that only around 60 of these pieces stay in our body and the rest will disappear down the . Sixty pieces of microplastic may not seem a lot but it will build up over time . They could eventually be bad for our . Things are likely to get . The researchers added that by the end of the century , eaters could consume as many as 780 , 000 pieces of plastic a year . That is likely to cause many health problems . Scientists say we need to more and find to plastic .
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