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What can be done about the extensive use of microplastics in consumer products? While an outright ban represents an ultimate goal, pulling the majority...
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Plastics have made life easier across the planet, not least due to the material being lighter, easy to mold and easy to clean. At...
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The new research into LEGO blocks took some of the plastic bricks that had weathered at sea and which were collected from English beaches,...
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The extent of plastic pollution in the oceans is considerable, and it could be that up to 70 percent of the waste in the...
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Gail Krantzberg, is a professor in the Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Krantzberg does research in...
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Between May and November 2019, the environmental research schooner Tara traversed four European sea fronts and collected samples from nine major rivers in Europe,...
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The area around Tuktoyaktuk in the Eastern Beaufort Sea is remote, and not the first choice for a place to find microplastics – yet...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday the level of microplastics in drinking-water is not yet dangerous for humans but called for more research...
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he new finding suggests that microplastic particles can also be transported by the atmosphere and subsequently washed out of the air, particularly by snow...
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“I guess I expected to see mostly soil and mineral particles,” said Gregory Wetherbee, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) researcher. Instead, he found...