How Microplastic Affects in Lives

Plastic is one type of item that is always present in our daily lives because it has properties that are versatile, lightweight, strong, durable, and also cheap. Due to the many uses, the production of plastic is very abundant and the use of plastic itself is also very high in Indonesia along with the increasing number of requests from industrial production whose basic materials are made of plastic. Globally, it is estimated that around 80% of marine plastic comes from land and 20% from the sea (Li et al., 2016). Plastic waste is very varied which can be distinguished according to size, origin, shape, and content. Plastic waste according to size is divided into 4 parts, namely: mega plastic debris (size > 100 mm), macro plastic (size > 20-100 mm), meso plastic debris (size > 5-20 mm), and the last one is micro plastic debris. (0.3-5mm).