PET is one of the most commonly used plastics. It’s usually transparent ... That’s partly because they consist of several ...

LDPE Low density polyethylene Carrier bags, some bottles and containers, yokes holding four or six-packs of cans together ... Not generally collected from households for recycling. However, mixed ...

Nanoplastics are the most worrisome type of plastic pollution for ... Canada found brewing a single plastic teabag released ...

Chelsea Rochman, a professor of ecology at the University of Toronto, soaked ground-up polyethylene, which is used to make some types of plastic bags, in San Diego Bay for three months.

Materials such as glass, metal and paper are quite easy to recycle. Certain types of plastic can be recycled too. Objects that aren’t recycled are taken to landfill sites. These are places where ...

A new study found that the brain may contain higher levels of microplastics, equivalent to the amount found in a standard ...