Thousands to millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood.

These tiny shards have turned up everywhere from the depths of the ocean to the top of Mount Everest to the human body.

People who meet their recommended water intake through tap water ingest an additional 4,000 plastic particles annually, while those who drink only bottled water ingest an additional 90,000 ...

Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia ARC Training Centre for Hyphenated Analytical ...

Plastic pollution—unmanaged disposal of plastic waste in water and on land—is a growing global crisis affecting the environment and animals, and an expanding body of evidence suggests negative impacts ...

Tiny plastic particles, so-called microplastics (MP), have been detected ubiquitously in various ecosystems around the globe. They are bioavailable for many organisms and may negatively affect ...

releasing tiny plastic particles into food," said Brad Younggren of Circulate Health. When you microwave food in plastic, the heat accelerates how much microplastics leach into the food.

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) India and the European Union (EU) have launched two major research and innovation initiatives that focus on marine plastic litter and waste-to-green-hydrogen solutions. The ...

He found that samples from those individuals had over 50 times the amount of broken-down plastic particles in their carotid arteries than those of a non-stroke patient. Even people who had not ...

The new southern Virginia company is focusing on collecting and reprocessing industrially generated plastic scrap. Green Recycle USA LLC, a startup company that collects and reprocesses industrially ...

Two standard-sized water bottles had 240,000 plastic particles in them on average, the researchers found using "a powerful optical imaging technique for rapid analysis of nanoplastics." ...