Tag: microplastics

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 ...

Black carbon particles were first discovered in placentas and then in other foetal organs; now, microplastics have been found in ...

When we were young, they taught us to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, a powerful alliteration that, in our underdeveloped idealist ...

Previously known to reside in our air, water and food, now for the first time scientists have discovered microplastics in ...

This upcoming month the UN will begin work on a new climate treaty that will target the rise of plastic ...