Surprising number of foods contain microplastics. Here's how to reduce the amount you consume

The public is starting to understand that they can find microplastics in their food, particularly seafood, but exposure from ...

Our bodies may not be riddled with microplastics after all — scientists say research is 'not biologically plausible' and 'a joke'

Life in plastic might be fantastic after all — or at least not as dangerous as we’ve been led to believe. Ubiquitous in the ...
PlasticsToday

How Silicone Can Help Reduce Proliferation of Microplastics

Silicone’s composition gives it a synthetic polymer structure with a silicon-oxygen backbone, making it more resistant to ...
The Earth Times

Microplastics Are Now in Human Blood and Organs: What We Know, What It Means, and Why It Matters

Recent studies reveal microplastics in human blood and organs, raising health concerns. Explore how these particles enter the ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

There's a surprisingly easy way to remove microplastics in drinking water

Tiny fragments of plastic are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, particularly through our food and drink. In 2024, scientists in China found a simple and effective means ...

Solving the world’s microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsed

The world puts a lot of unnecessary microplastics into the environment − such as glitter in makeup. Even better filters in ...

Simple ways to reduce your exposure to microplastics around the home

There is little research into the health effects of microplastics, but if you want to reduce your exposure, researchers say ...

We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study

You’ve probably heard microplastics are everywhere — in our brains, in our hearts, in possibly every single man on earth’s ...
Mother Jones

Scary Findings on Microplastics in Our Bodies May Be Flawed. That’s Good—and Bad.

An expert review published in the Lancet in August called plastics a “grave, growing and underrecognised danger” to human and ...
Science Daily

Microplastics are undermining the ocean’s power to absorb carbon

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

The research on microplastics in our bodies is terrifying. It might also be wrong.

Claims that microplastics are widespread throughout the human body are now being questioned. Microplastics are real — but ...