Laundry is a major source of microplastic pollution into the environment, and in-line washing machine filters are one ...

Participants will use microplastics collected on campus to create pieces of art while exploring the environmental impact of ...

Some 80,000 metric tons of trash comprising 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic - known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - were Friday floating in the sea, the Netherlands-based Ocean Cleanup Foundation ...

The European Commission estimates that over 50,000 and possibly up to 184,000 tonnes of plastic pellets – known ... now been found in almost all life forms on the planet and can even cross ...

On the Rhone in Valence, France, the fast flow means there are "3,000 plastic particles every second", said Ghiglione. The Seine in Paris has around 900 per second. "The mass of microplastics ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines a microplastic as a piece of plastic that is less than five millimetres long. As research is still ongoing into how ingesting microplastics ...