Plastic pollution is out of control. Each year, more than 8 million tonnes of synthetic polymers enter the ocean, and while some sinks to the floor, returns to the shore, or collects in the...
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Plastic Rain Is a Now a Thing, And We’ve Underestimated Just How Heavy It Is : ScienceAlert
A plastic mist descends from the sky each day. You can’t see it. Or feel it. It has no smell or taste. But researchers think we are seriously underestimating the invisible downpour. New estimates...
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One Small Crack on a Teflon Pan Can Release Thousands of Plastic Particles : ScienceAlert
A new study reveals just how many tiny plastic particles might be seeping into our foods after contact with cooking utensils, with a small broken crack on a Teflon-coated pan potentially releasing as many...
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New Report Lists 5 Reasons to Think Plastic Recycling Is a “Failed Concept” : ScienceAlert
Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall...
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