“…Owing to their bright colour and tiny size, microplastics are ingested by invertebrates and vertebrates (Wang et al, 2020), introducing POPs into the food web (Li et al, 2020;Moore, 2008). Biomagnification occurs at higher up trophic levels (Setala et al, 2014), threatening fish and other marine organisms, even human beings (Sanganyado et al, 2020). Microplastics have been reported to decrease survival and lower fecundity in Tigriopus japonicas Mori 1938 (Lee et al, 2013), cause analogous embryonic development in Lytechinus variegatus Lamark 1938 (Nobre et al, 2015).…”