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Turning the Tide—How Latinos Hold the Solution to Marine Plastic Pollution
Newsweek· 5 days agoThe ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With...
Researchers drop more than 8,000 pieces of litter into a fake river to fight plastic pollution
Phys.org· 3 days agoPlastic pollution can cause devastating effects to river ecosystems and the invertebrates, fish and...
Are We Becoming 'Plastic People'?
Mercola· 1 day agoA plastic straw, a bottle of water, a plastic bag from the grocery — these single-use plastics seem so innocuous that people barely give ...
I sailed across oceans in search of microplastics – a new film charts my journey
The Conversation· 5 days agoThis trip was organised by eXXpedition, a not-for-profit organisation that runs sailing research expeditions at sea (and now virtually) to investigate the causes of and solutions to the global ...
New Plant-Based Plastic Releases 9 Times Less Microplastics
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoRecent research shows that plant-based plastics release far fewer microplastics than traditional ...
Why ‘paper or plastic?’ may be coming to an end at California grocery stores
San Jose Mercury News· 3 days agoOn Tuesday, lawmakers in the California state Senate and Assembly approved two bills that would ban...
Tiniest ocean microplastics may have evaded detection
Futurity· 3 days agoChemicals within microplastics (MPs) that are found in our world’s oceans and waterways, and in...
Every human testicle examined in new study contained microplastics
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWhile the full extent of microplastics’ health effects aren’t known yet, evidence strongly indicates...
U.N. Tribunal Declares Countries are Legally Obligated to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
One Green Planet· 19 hours agoThe International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) ruled that carbon emissions constitute...
Microplastics are in human testicles. It’s still not clear how they got there.
The Raw Story· 3 days agoThis story was originally published by Grist. No human organ is safe from microplastic contamination, it seems — not even the testicles. Researchers at the University of Mexico recently tested ...