The Fix for Food Waste Comes With a Major Catch
Between 30% and 40% of the U.S. food supply goes uneaten, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Most…
Great waste in the Great Lakes
More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking…
Charleston Waterkeeper intends to sue over plastic pollution
CHARLESTON — The Southern Environmental Law Center sent a letter to three companies and the South Carolina Ports…
Possible culprit for ‘spoonful of microplastics’ in our brain
Life in plastic isn’t so fantastic. While there’s debate over how much is actually in our systems, microplastics…
Scientists Tracking the Microplastic Pollution Just Realized They Were Measuring Their Own Lab Gloves
Close-up of microplastics. Credit: Pexels We should not underestimate the prevalence of microplastics. They are everywhere—in our rivers,…
An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along
Earth’s worrying pall of microplastics—recorded by scientists practically everywhere, across our planet’s oceans, aloft in clouds above Mount…
‘Is this worse than we thought?’
Researchers found more microplastics in the brains of people who had dementia than in those who didn’t. What’s…
Researchers find disturbing discovery in 100% of livestock fecal samples tested: ‘A wake-up call’
While plastics have undoubtedly led to a number of modern-day conveniences, their inability to naturally degrade has created…
Microplastics Abound in Prostate Tumors
Plastic has turned up in an unexpected place: inside most of the prostate tumors examined in a…
Iron catalyst turns plastic waste into vinegar using sunlight
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a solar-powered method to convert plastic waste into acetic acid,…