| They have turned their recent research into microplastics in the Great Lakes into a platform for advocacy, pressuring companies to stop using the plastic beads altogether. |
| Fishing lines which contain plastic such as nylon can take up to 600 years to decompose, and during degradation become microparticles or microplastics. |
| The Illinois legislation does not include bioplastics like PHA, defining the banned microplastics to be of the synthetic type. |
