While the study didn't directly link microplastics to any deaths, it did reveal one potential way drinking plastic-filled bottled water can be harmful. Unfortunately, cutting out bottled water won ...

It’s in the single-use packaging we discard, the consumer goods that fill our stores ... to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act and will keep pushing for plastic pollution to be ...

Bourama Traoré and his brother, now aged 20 and 29, grew up along the banks of the Niger River. Their daily routine has ...

One of the words on the list refers to the plastic-filled period of history we are in now. “Plasticene, n. & adj. (2011) an era in Earth’s history, within the Anthropocene, commencing in the ...

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Studies have shown that when plastic bottles are subjected to heat, BPA, microplastics, and other dangerous chemicals leach into water.