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

A team of McGill University researchers has developed a cost-effective, high-throughput technology for detecting nanoplastics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sulfur (S) is an essential element in the life processes of all living things including micro-organisms, higher plants ... As soil organic matter (SOM) is broken down, the S in the organic forms is ...