Microplastics are probably impacting us, much more than we know.

It's been revealed some of Auckland's popular beaches are 50 times more polluted with microplastics than elsewhere in New Zealand.

They're made up of everything from microbeads to clothing fibres and broken-down bottles.

Nanotechnologist and science educator Dr Michelle Dickinson says as a result, our fish are filled with them.

She told Tim Dower we can't get away from these microplastics.

Dickinson says we're inadvertently eating them through fish and other sea life, and we should be aware they're in the atmosphere that we're breathing.

 

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