A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...
By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful products. The findings are detailed in the ...
New Microplastics Research Center at PSU hopes to identify sources of pervasive, potentially dangerous pollution ...
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How worried should you be about microplastics?
Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...
Algae is a 'little vacuum' for microplastics. Midwest scientists think it could clean up the problem
Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.
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Resident infuriated after spotting 'nurdles' in river after recent storm: 'There were probably thousands'
"I'm going to keep my eyes out for [these] now." Resident infuriated after spotting 'nurdles' in river after recent storm: ...
Plastics are ever-present in our society. And they don't decompose, but become tiny particles called microplastics. And those have been found everywhere. Now, they're being found in some unexpected ...
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