A study exploring this was published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials and reported in ScienceDirect. Researchers used ...
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination ...
No microplastic particle is safe from bounty-hunting "microcleaners" By Ben Coxworth March 28, 2025 This diagram shows how the microcleaners use soft dendritic colloids to collect submerged ...
Scientists have revealed which countries have the highest consumption of microplastics through our food and through the air. So how does the U.S. compare? Microplastics refer to any plastics smaller ...
A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. ZHONG Huan from Nanjing University, has uncovered a ...
Every day, humans unknowingly consume the equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic particles, accumulating to approximately 50 plastic bags worth of microplastics annually. These microscopic ...
Glitter is made to be tiny and adhere loosely to surfaces, contributing to microplastic pollution. Biodegradable solutions might still get everywhere, but won't stick around forever. As opposed to ...
Microplastics in water and the environment is one of the hot topics under the general discussion of environmental professionals. These microplastic particles are present everywhere, also in tap water.