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Preterm Babies’ Placentas Harbor Higher Levels of Microplastics

Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater give it its structure and strength. In seawater (and in soil, not depicted), resalting destroys the bridges, prevending microplastic formation and allowing the plastic to become biodegradable.

Scientists Create Plastic That Safely Dissolves in Seawater, Preventing Microplastic Pollution

Summary of purification process: water polluted by microplastics (PET); addition of magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with polydopamine and lipase; removal of nanoparticles with microplastics using a magnet

Magnetic Nanoparticles: A Novel Solution for Removing Dangerous Microplastics from Water

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Microplastics in the Sky: How Tiny Plastic Particles May Be Reshaping Our Weather

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Microplastics detected in dolphin breath

Scientists develop novel method for strengthening PVC products

Dr. Tianxi Yang and student Peter Yang with the tool they created to test micro- and nanoplastics.

New Portable Device Detects Invisible Plastic Particles in Your Drinks

Particle counts of petroleum-based (EVA) and plant-based (TPU-FC1) microplastics show that, over time, EVAs exhibit virtually no biodegradation, while the TPUs have mostly disappeared by day 200.

Plant-Based Plastics Biodegrade in Months, Not Centuries

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Microplastics cause behavioral changes

Open-heart surgery. Pixabay

Microplastics found in human heart tissues, both before and after surgical procedures

Microscopic photo of PA12, a marine microplastic pollutant.

Using optics to trace the flow of microplastics in oceans

Soil and freshwater come under the spotlight in plastics-pollution fight

Lettuce plants take up chemicals that are released by tyre abrasion: The picture shows the actual experimental setup in which the researchers added tyre abrasion to the nutrient solutions of lettuce plants.

From the road to the plate: lettuce takes up toxic additives from tire wear

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Breathing Plastic

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