By Shubhangi Shah While the government’s move to ban single-use plastic items starting July 1 is a step in the right direction, the menace of plastic is much larger, or should we say too small to even be detected by the naked eye. These are microplastics, the tiny plastic particles that form as a result of … Read more
According to findings and research in the journal ‘Nature Reviews & Environment’ by an international team of researchers and experts from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Alferd Wegener Institute and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research investigated a new study of the atmosphere as a related cause of plastic pollution in … Read more
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Aug. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Microscopic bits of plastic have most likely taken up residence in all of the major filtering organs in your body, a new lab study suggests. Researchers found evidence of plastic contamination in tissue samples taken from the lungs, liver, spleen and kidneys of … Read more