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microplastics

Academia 1 month ago

On World Environment Day, you can help end plastic pollution

Ending plastic pollution is clearly a human health, planetary health, economic health and busi...

Science & Tech 1 month ago

Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours

While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics, researchers from the RIKEN Cent...

Academia 10 months ago

Breaking the plastic habit: The urgent need to address plastic pollution

The normalized use of single-use plastics like soap sachets and the lack of awareness of these plast...

Asia & Pacific 10 months ago

Experts meet as final global plastic treaty talks near

The four-day gathering is a largely technical waypoint on the road to final negotiations in late Nov...

Society 11 months ago

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Coastal communities face greater risk of microplastics

As the world's second-largest plastic polluter, Indonesia has topped the global per capita int...

Academia 2 years ago

How much plastic are we ingesting?

Measuring microplastics in humans is challenging, but researchers already have preliminary figures....

Environment 3 years ago

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'They're everywhere': microplastics in oceans, air and human body

Now scientific studies are increasingly detecting microplastics in some human organs -- including &q...

Environment 4 years ago

Researchers find microplastics on top of the world at Everest

Traces of microplastics have been found close to the top of Mount Everest, likely originating from e...

Health 4 years ago

Bottle-fed babies ingest 'millions' of microplastics: Study

Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research show...

Environment 4 years ago

14 million tons of microplastics on sea floor: Australian study

The world's sea floor is littered with an estimated 14 million tons of microplastics, broken dow...