Microplastics

Common Household Cleaning Product Found To Release Trillions of Microplastic Fibers

Daisy Hips

Research reveals that melamine sponges, commonly used for cleaning, release over a trillion microplastic fibers globally each month due to ...

A common food packaging material has been found in penis tissue and concerned experts claim it could be causing erectile dysfunction

Debi Johnson

By Emily Stearn, Health Reporter For Mailonline 12:28 19 Jun 2024, updated 15:02 19 Jun 2024 Microplastics used in food ...

Plastic Is Polluting Our Oceans. Will We Get a Treaty to Cut Plastic Waste?

Abhinav Thawait

Negotiators working on a potentially historic international agreement to limit plastic pollution wrapped up talks this week in Ottawa, Canada, ...

Earth Day 2024 and the environmental challenges posed by plastics • NC Newsline

Gregory Daniels

Today in the 55th Earth Day – an annual commemoration that was, amazingly enough, conceived and launched in 1970 by ...

Your plastic cutting board is releasing microplastics that can get into food. Does that mean you should ditch it?

Gary Rose

The cleanliness of cutting boards is a long-debated food safety issue, given that both wood and plastic — the most ...

Which proteins contain the most microplastics?

Daisy Hips

If you’re eating protein, you could be ingesting hundreds of tiny pieces of plastic each year, research finds. A new ...

America’s hidden pandemic, the chemicals in our food and water: Study finds microplastics are quietly costing US $250 billion a year in healthcare

Debi Johnson

By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com 17:32 11 Jan 2024, updated 18:18 11 Jan 2024 Effects of the ...

Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought

Debi Johnson

Researchers cut their bottled water use after shocking discovery of a quarter of a million tiny plastic pieces per litre. ...