New research shows microplastics in food and water. Here’s what parents need to know—and realistic steps to protect your ...

Microplastics have been discovered in glass bottles, ultra-processed foods, rice, table salt, and canned fish. 5 Studies have ...

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The particles were found in the edible tissue of six different species of fish.

Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid ...

New study: As global plastic production grows, so too does the concentration of microplastics in our bodies. As plastic production grows, so do the microplastics in our brains - Los Angeles Times ...

Much of that comes from plastic packaging and coatings, as well as miniscule polymers that rub off onto food and into drinks. But while a single stick of gum may be small, the average gum consumer ...

In a plastic-obsessed society, reducing exposure is only getting harder. In the past 15 years, the world has produced half of the plastic ever made, and production is still speeding up.

What are microplastics. Over the past two decades, the rate of plastic production has roughly doubled, to more than 400 million metric tons per year, about the weight of 1,200 Empire State ...

Plastic 2.0. The team, which included researchers from the University of Tokyo and RIKEN, has developed a plastic with seemingly contradictory properties: strong and flexible, yet soluble in seawater.

Drinks in glass bottles contained more microplastics than those in plastic bottles or cans, according to a new French study.   Researchers traced ...