Tag: plastic pollution

As UN plastics treaty negotiations remain stalled, California's addition of microplastics to its Candidate Chemicals List on October 1 opens ...

A transect-level survey of four Omani coastal sites found plastics made up 62 percent of marine litter and that a ...

A new study combining sediment nanoparticle analysis with six years of Sentinel-3 satellite data reveals evidence of water quality degradation ...

Researchers in China report that superworm larvae can degrade disposable polypropylene face masks at high rates, and that the breakdown ...

A new review finds that bottled water is widely contaminated with micro- and nanoplastics shed mainly from PET packaging, but ...

A new global model tracking macroplastic across 285 river basins finds that roughly 73 percent of plastic emitted on land ...

A Nigerian study finds that phenolics, phthalates, and PBDEs in drinking-water streams and market fish exceed safe health thresholds, with ...

A feasibility study on Italy's Po Delta combined bridge cameras, drones, satellites, ship sampling and hydrodynamic modelling to track plastic ...

Researchers have engineered an enzyme variant that depolymerizes post-consumer PET in natural seawater at 37 degrees Celsius, achieving monomer yields ...

Researchers at the University of Florence have optimized a fast, low-cost sample preparation protocol that combines Fenton oxidation with cyclohexane ...