A new ocean-dissolvable plastic from Japan breaks down overnight with no microplastics left behind – safe, strong, and eco-friendly innovation for the future.

Living in a U.S. coastal county bordered by ocean waters with very high concentrations of microplastics may increase the risk of heart and metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary artery ...

A new ecological study links high marine microplastic levels near US coastlines with significantly greater prevalence of type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and stroke. The findings raise ...

The law isn’t doing much better than science at catching up with the problem. Dr. Anja Brandon, Associate Director of U.S. Plastics Policy at Ocean Conservancy, has a PhD in environmental ...

From ocean depths to kitchen shelves, microplastics have infiltrated nearly every corner of the environment. They’ve been ...

Via ocean currents and rivers, the tiny plastic particles can even reach the Arctic, ... Micro- and nanoplastic from the atmosphere is polluting the ocean Date: May 10, 2022 Source: ...

A volunteer checks plastic waste while conducting research on the amount of micro-plastics contained in the water at a beach in Pekan Bada, Indonesia's Aceh province on June 2, 2022. (Photo by ...

Micro- and nano-plastics: an invisible threat Since the 1950s, plastic production has grown exponentially, reaching 58 million tonnes in Europe in 2022 alone. This has led to massive amounts of waste.

Douglas McCauley, a professor of ocean science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the reach of that waste became apparent when he collected plastic debris from the nests of ...

That’s also only counting the bits down to a third of a millimeter long, even though microplastics can get much, much smaller, and they grow much more numerous as they do so. (Microplastics are ...

But four weeks later, after Vos and his team had let the plastics stew in the ocean for a bit longer, they repeated the test. This time, 65 percent of the wax moths died.