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Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

A study performed on rats seems to show that the chemicals leached from plastic takeout containers are bad for your heart ...

Microplastics are everywhere, including your home. Thankfully, there are things you can do to minimize your microplastic ...

Study by US scientists, published in the journal Nature Medicine, also found that dementia patients had up to 10 times as ...

Imagine sitting down to a meal and realizing there’s an invisible ingredient in every bite — plastic. Plastics are all around us, in bags, bottles, packaging and clothing. When they ...

Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has urged the Telangana government to ban the manufacture and marketing of single use plastic in the State, and enforce the ban from the source, that is, plastic ...

Anti-plastic activists from Plawaste have petitioned the Committee on Health urging lawmakers to impose strict regulations and raise awareness about the harmful effects of plastic on public health and ...

Recently, the number of applications of composite materials using foam cores is expanding to reduce weight and increase the ...

The seabin was floated in the River Nene in Peterborough to extract debris, particularly microscopic particles which cannot ...