In a bid to reduce the amount of microplastics entering the UK environment, the government has announced it will introduce a ban on the sale of wet wipes containing plastic in the country. Steve Barclay, the Environment Secretary, announced steps being taken to ban the supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic. It comes … Read more
X user @casbrad Claim: Plastic cutting boards have been shown to release microplastics into food. Judgement: Rating: true Microplastics — pieces of plastic which are generally smaller than 5 mm, or about the length of a pencil eraser, and are barely visible to the naked eye – have discovers in places as different as human … Read more
Screenshot/X Claim: Plastic cutting boards have been shown to release microplastics into food. Judgement: Rating: true By human heart tissue to the clouds over Mount Fujimicroplastics, small pieces of plastic They have been shown to be generally less than 5mm long (about the size of a pencil eraser). ubiquitous in modern environments. Barely visible to … Read more
Compost piles are prepared for screening at the Tulare Lake Compost Plant. Researchers say natural fertilizers made from sewage sludge are an increasing source of wind-blown microplastics. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) A team of UCLA researchers has put a new spin on the 1970s rock classic “Dust in the Wind” — only this … Read more
Anna Ryan, a 24-year-old master’s student at Dalhousie University, examines samples of microplastics she collected during Hurricane Larry in September 2021. (Eric Woolliscroft/CBC – image credit) As Hurricane Larry ravaged Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area to find out if the ocean could release microplastics into the atmosphere and … Read more