Tagged With Microplastics

We've now found microplastics on the very highest and lowest points on Earth. Mount Everest is littered with them.

Aylin Woodward

Bottle-fed babies could be ingesting more than 1 million microplastics every day

Anna Medaris Miller

Microsoft teamed up with a nonprofit using autonomous 'interceptor' boats to clean up the ocean and is helping it identify trash with machine learning

Mary Meisenzahl

Tiny pellets called 'nurdles' are leeching into the ocean. A new Shell plant could produce 80 trillion of them a year.

Aria Bendix

Scientists have created magnetic coils thinner than a human hair that could break down plastic in the ocean

Aylin Woodward

An 18-year-old has found a way to use 'magnetic liquid' invented by NASA to remove harmful microplastics from water

Aria Bendix

Americans accidentally eat 200 tiny pieces of towels, beads, and plastic foams every day. Here's how worried you should be.

Hilary Brueck

Glitter is terrible for the environment. Here's why scientists want you to stop using it.

Lindsay Dodgson

Tiny plastic particles are polluting the deepest point in the ocean

Peter Kotecki

Scientists have found new evidence that tiny plastic particles might be accumulating in human faeces

Peter Kotecki

McDonald's is scrapping plastic straws in one of its biggest markets -- and the US could be next

Tom Murray

Bottled water from major brands like Aquafina, Nestle, and Dasani has been found to contain tiny plastic particles that you're drinking

Hilary Brueck

Bottled water from major brands like Aquafina, Nestle, and Dasani contains tiny plastic particles, and evidence suggests they're major contributors to microplastic trash heaps

Hilary Brueck