Plastic particles from water bottles can kill pancreatic cells and cause diabetes, study finds

Previous research links tiny plastic particles to a range of adverse health conditions but largely stops short of ...
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Judith Enck on the Plastic Crisis—and How to Reduce It at the Source

Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...
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Oil Residues Can Travel Over 5,000 Miles on Ocean Debris

Discover how scientists traced oil-coated plastics that washed up on a Florida beach back to a 2019 Brazilian oil spill that ...

Solving the world’s microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsed

Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in ...

Plastic pellets known as ‘nurdles’ are polluting beaches and waterways

The minuscule spheres, typically less than 5 millimeters in diameter, are the basic building blocks of nearly all plastic ...