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How We’ll Know for Sure If Microplastics Are Destroying Our Health

Thu, 08/14/2025 - 09:35

Gizmodo

health, microplastics, Plastic pollution

Amazon Finally Ditches Plastic Air Pillows, but Environmentalists Say It’s Not Enough

Mon, 10/21/2024 - 09:45

Gizmodo

garbage, Amazon Prime, plastic air pillows, Plastic pollution, plastics

Nearly .05% of Your Brain Is Likely Microplastic, Brain Samples Reveal

Fri, 08/23/2024 - 07:54

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A photo of microplastics

health, Brains, microplastics, Plastic pollution, Pollution, Public Health

Here's How the Plastic Industry Thinks We Can Solve the Waste Crisis

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 10:53

Gizmodo : Environment

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plastic, ross eisenberg, mccauley, mba polymers, sam pottinger, betsy bowers, lawrence berkeley national laboratory

How the Recycling Symbol Became Meaningless

Wed, 06/12/2024 - 08:15

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Recycling, susan spotless, Richard Nixon, plastic bag, larry thomas, Meryl Streep, lewis freeman

Amazon Is Ditching Plastic Packaging Abroad—but Using Even More in the U.S.

Thu, 04/04/2024 - 12:21

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packaging, amazon, plastic, amazon india, grist, packaging waste, jdcom

Trackers Placed in Amazon Packaging Reveal What Really Happens to Store Drop-Off Recycling

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 13:05

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packaging, amazon, Recycling, containers, kerbside collection, fred meyer, us pirg

Detergent Pods Are Just the Start of Clothing’s Microplastic Pollution Problem

Mon, 03/11/2024 - 09:25

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Pollution, Laundry, sarah paiji yoo, seafood, Bain and Company, microfiber, technical fabrics

Bottled Water Contains 100 Times More Plastic Particles Than Previously Thought

Fri, 01/12/2024 - 09:59

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Bottled Water, plastic, nanoparticle, beizhan yan, wei min, grist, polyethylene terephthalate

Microplastics Could Be Affecting the Weather, Too

Wed, 11/15/2023 - 08:00

Gizmodo : Environment

New research this week is the latest to show that microplastics have polluted just about everywhere on Earth. Scientists discovered plastic particles in cloud samples collected from atop a mountain in Eastern China.

microplastics, plastisphere, plastic, water pollution, Pollution, marine plastic pollution, Environment

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