Introducing a tax would add an additional cost to making virgin (new) plastic, to deter manufacturers from producing and ...

Taken together, however, the report found 80 per cent of all microplastics found in Canada are fibres shed from textiles or ...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, ...

The EU’s push for a global plastics treaty is a crucial step toward mitigating the environmental and health risks of plastic ...

Microplastics have infiltrated every aspect of our lives, from the air we breathe to the food we consume, raising alarming ...

Microplastics have even been known to affect the gut-brain axis, leading to neurological and even psychological disorders.

As they accumulate in the atmosphere, microplastics could influence weather and climate, as suggested by a recent study ...

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through ...

Microplastics are fragments of plastic less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) across, which accumulate in the environment as a result of the break-up of larger materials or the shedding of synthetic ...

Cellulose diacetate (CDA) is a bio-based polymer used in food packaging, and now, researchers have made it even more eco-friendly.

Earlier this year, researchers reported the first known evidence of microplastics in the human brain. But what does it mean?

Two Princeton graduates have developed a new filtration system to filter harmful microplastics out of the water supply in Atlantic City.