Marine plastic pollution continues to be a challenge as global plastic production has increased to 400.3 million tonnes in 2022 . An estimated 80 to 85% of the marine debris consist of plastics from land-based sources . The ubiquity and presence of microplastics in the marine environment have been widely discussed in recent scientific literature. . Since its first use in scientific literature the definition for "microplastics" has undergone several alterations with the most agreed upon as "fragments of plastics < 5 mm in size" . Further categorization has been included to differentiate microplastics based on source; primary and secondary .