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
Ten years ago, I stood with then US Secretary of State John Kerry in the spectacular Sant Ocean Hall of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC to discuss an issue dear to both of us: the state of the oceans in the world. Before that week in 2014, no one had … Read more
A new study has found that the average water bottle contains almost a quarter of a million fragments of ‘nanoplastics’ – plastic particles so small they could potentially eat away at the machinery of human cells. The findings published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) open a troubling window into … Read more
The average liter of bottled water contains almost a quarter of a million invisible pieces of tiny nanoplastics, which are detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long thought there were many of these microscopic pieces of plastic, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers universities did their … Read more