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Microplastic in 99% of Seafood Samples

Study finds microplastic contamination in 99% of seafood samples.The peer-reviewed study detected microplastics in 180 of 182 samples comprising five types of fish and pink shrimp. Microplastics cont...
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Microplastics in Delhi’s Groundwater

Study finds microplastics in Delhi’s groundwater. The study commissioned by the Delhi govt. also found microplastics in the Yamuna’s water and soil samples from its banks. A first-of-its-kind study ...
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Microplastics in Brains of Mice

A new study finds microplastics can block the flow of blood in the brains of mice. The study comes on the heels of other research showing, for the first time, that microplastics can lodge in human bra...
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Laundry: Top Source of Microplastics

Microplastics are turning up everywhere, from remote mountain tops to deep ocean trenches. They also are in many animals, including humans. The most common microplastics in the environment are microf...
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Microplastics too small to detect

Most microplastics in drinking water are invisible to current methods. A study by researchers from the French CNRS and the University of Toulouse shows that the majority of microplastics in drinking w...
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Bottled Water: Urgent Health Warning

Scientists have issued an urgent warning telling people to stop drinking bottled water due to the harmful particles they could be ingesting. According to a study, water from a plastic bottle contains ...
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The Solution to Microplastics?

Sadly, we know that microplastics are getting everywhere, including our drinking water – but researchers have developed a new way to tackle the problem: a filter made of a rather unusual combination o...
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Microplastics from Tea Bags

Scientists Warn of Harmful Release From Tea Bags. Drinking tea from plastic-containing tea bags could expose you to billions of nano- and microplastics with every sip, putting your health at risk. Man...
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Microplastics from Bottled Water

I suspect humanity will look back on this era in horror more than anything else for the amounts of microplastics (endocrine disruptors) in our food, water and general environment making us all a littl...
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