The lactic acid bacterium found in the dish helps bind nanoplastics inside the intestine, allowing them to remain together ...

Microplastics, especially nylon fibres, are present in Chennai’s beach sediments in relatively low abundance, but low overall ...

Two new studies this month have highlighted that plastic is no longer simply travelling through our world in rivers and ...

Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered ...

A bacterium isolated from kimchi and a set of plant-derived compounds found in tamarind have each shown the ability to latch ...

Engineer JC Foster left SpaceX to launch Puresteel, a startup that makes an affordable, plastic-free coffeemaker.

Microplastics are everywhere, which makes studying them all the more difficult. Labs are doing all they can to be ...

In experimental testing, kitchen sponges were found to release between 0.68 and 4.21 grams per person per year via ordinary ...

Prolonged exposure to microplastics can disrupt vital physiological processes in gorgonians, such as respiration. Although ...

Kitchen sponges are among the most frequently used household items – and may also represent a previously underestimated ...

More than a month after they poured from a semi-trailer on a west Michigan highway, little bits of white plastic appeared to ...