Plastic bottles, whether reused or left in the sun, deteriorate over time, releasing small plastic particles into the water. These particles are small enough to be eaten and absorbed into our ...

The water we drink, whether bottled or from the tap, contains microplastics so small that they escape current regulations. A ...

Thailand has become the latest country to take on the global plastic waste crisis by banning imports of plastic waste. For years, the country had served as a key destination for plastic waste from ...

The study was led by NEA, which worked closely with other agencies including national water agency PUB ... macroplastics as being larger-sized plastic particles with diameters greater than ...

Clothing, water bottles, takeout containers, cutting boards — it’s challenging to keep up with the growing number of items that expose us to tiny plastic particles. Now some tea bags have ...

Like you dug stuff out of the ground, sent it to a factory, squished it into the shape of a bottle, popped a label on it, popped water in ... These tiny particles of plastic, known as ...

TCD NEWSLETTER Your personal guide to a cleaner, cooler future Microplastics are commonly created when larger pieces of plastic break down — imagine a plastic water bottle degrading ... And these ...

Moreover, besides being difficult to recycle, slow to decay, and expensive and polluting to burn, plastic breaks down into microplastics (particles smaller than ... beaches and in the upper limits of ...

Due to ocean currents gyrating swirls of garbage like fishing nets, plastic water bottles, and other items that wash out of landfills, a floating garbage patch exists throughout the world’s gyres.