Tag: microplastics

Wherever you are currently reading this, it is virtually guaranteed that something made of plastic or containing plastic components is ...

The European Commission is once again tackling microplastic pollution. After the glitter ban was announced earlier this month, the EU ...

With microplastics thought to be potentially widely spread throughout the environment and human body; plastic waste of all shapes and ...

WWF is calling on governments to support global bans and phase-outs of the "most high-risk and unnecessary" single-use plastic products ...

In the North Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, there is a shape-shifting, floating mass that’s three times the size ...

Taking a swig from your plastic water bottle will do more than slake your thirst — you will also be ...

A new study published in the open-access scientific journal, Plos One, has found a “plastic smog” plaguing our oceans. It’s ...

The problem with plastic lies in its very name. Deriving from Greek, etymologically it means “to mould” (plasma), as in ...

Plastic waste is increasingly engulfing everything on the planet from ecosystems to people but we don’t have adequate knowledge of ...

In March, at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, UN member states adopted the historic resolution to ...

A new global survey commissioned by WWF has found that seven out of 10 people advocate for binding global rules ...

Last week, Clean Earth Rovers a startup working to remove plastics pollution and debris from waterways launched its Piranha water ...