How Microplastics Sneak Into Your Food — and What You Can Do About It
Here's what toxicologists recommend.Microplastics, defined as tiny plastic pieces less than five millimeters in size, are ...
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Your tea bags are releasing millions of nanoplastics into your body, scientists warn
Researchers discovered that these bags release immense numbers of particles when immersed in hot water ... plastic use, raising questions about the safety of plastic materials that come into ...
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For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield
Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body ... water bottles, and ...
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The Problem With Plastic Bags
Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste ... These oil giants are rapidly building petrochemical plants across the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means ...
Alarming levels of microplastics found in human brains
A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.
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Microplastics in tea bags work their way deep into the human body, study shows
People who drink loose leaf tea might be on to something: scientists in Spain have found evidence of plastic pollution getting into human cells after being leached from tea bags. Published in the ...