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For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic
1 year, 5 months ago

For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic

Wired  

At the start of his third year of graduate school, Kazi Albab Hussain became a father. “At that time,” Hussain says, “I was purchasing many baby foods, and I was seeing that, even in baby foods, there are a lot of plastics.” Hussain wanted to know how much was being released from the kinds of containers he’d been buying. In …

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The sea’s next big plastic problem? Old paint
3 years, 3 months ago

The sea’s next big plastic problem? Old paint

Wired  

Ninety-two percent of the Oceans’ plastic pollution, by one estimate, is due to microplastics: pieces of plastic under five millimetres in size, which contaminate deep-sea sediments and infiltrate sealife, with unknown consequences on the health of humans eating that fish. Much of the debris falls into the water below, and as many of the constituents that make up paint are …

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Opinion: Microplastics are getting into our bodies. We need to understand what that means
3 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: Microplastics are getting into our bodies. We need to understand what that means

LA Times  

Nobody wants to snack on plastic bags or soda rings, but according to a 2019 study from the University of Newcastle, we could be consuming roughly a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. “We started to realize that we have exposure that’s much greater than just a fish at the grocery store,” said Dr. Chelsea Rochman, a University of …

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WHAT FURTHER RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO ASSESS THE SPREAD AND IMPACT OF MICROPLASTICS?
5 years, 4 months ago

WHAT FURTHER RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO ASSESS THE SPREAD AND IMPACT OF MICROPLASTICS?

Daily Mail  

The World Health Organisation's 2019 report 'Microplastics in Drinking Water' outlined numerous areas for future research that could shed light on how far spread the problem of microplastic pollution is, how it may impact human health and what can be done to stop these particles from entering our water supplies. The following research would clarify the occurrence of microplastics in …

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