The findings show that bottled water could contain up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously estimated, as earlier studies only accounted for microplastics, or pieces between 1 and ...

Then it was a simple matter of counting all the different particles of plastic. They estimated that a typical one-liter bottle contains 240,000 of them. Sherri Mason, an associate research ...

Over time, plastic breaks down into micro- and nanoparticles that are invisible to the naked eye. Researchers at Lund University have investigated how these small plastic particles affect ...

NEW YORK, Jan 14: Recent studies conducted by the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto shed light on a concerning revelation – individuals consuming protein may unwittingly be ...

Tiny particles of plastic pollution could be finding their way deep into our lungs with every breath we take, new research reveals. Known as microplastics or nanoplastics, a study from the ...

Plastic is the vile blackguard that sits on the lip of the planet, throttles the lungs of its green patches ... it fragments into zillions of tiny-tiny particles that scatter and spread like ...

As the name implies, microplastics are small particles of plastic found in the vast majority of our food and water supply. Drinking from plastic bottles increases blood pressure due to ...

The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.