Microplastics range from about the width of a bacterium to several millimeters across. Nanoplastics are smaller still. These ...

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Volunteers, along with Southern Water's Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works, worked to remove the beads as quickly and ...

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key ...

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When you start making more things at home, syrups, salves, jams, cleaners, ferments, you realise pretty fast that “just stick ...

Once invisible to most, microplastics have become one of the biggest health and environmental concerns of 2025 — showing up ...