A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

In A Nutshell Researchers at Tokyo University of Science developed a method to create fluorescent, irregularly shaped ...

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Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

The world’s reliance on plastic has many unseen consequences on human health, enabling fragments of micro- and nano-plastics — and the chemicals that they’re composed of — to proliferate throughout ...

Squinting at the fine print, a customer picked up a carton of berries and turned it over in a Tesco supermarket in North London one afternoon. The packaging appeared normal—lightweight, transparent, ...

A new study used a pioneering technique to deliver endocrine-disrupting aerosolized micro-nano-plastics to female lab rats. Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also ...

Tiny plastic particles in food could cause liver damage, warns a new study. Microplastics and polystyrene inadvertently consumed while eating may also alter our metabolism, say researchers. The new ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...