microplastics
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Cars Emit More Than Carbon Pollution — They Release Microplastic, Too
When you take your car for a spin, it’s not just emitting particulate matter and greenhouse gases. The wear and tear of your car’s tires and brakes release microplastic, which winds, rains, and snow can carry to the most remote parts of the world.
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Just Opening A Plastic Bottle Can Send Microplastic Pollution Into The Air
Coronavirus is Earth-shatteringly scary, and social distancing sucks. To distract myself and pull my brain out of the depths of speculative despair, I’ve been drinking a ton of seltzer, mostly from plastic bottles. I know that’s bad because nightmare, but seltzer water gives me more pleasure than many other things in life, so I keep…
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Plastics Could Mark The Start Of A Geological Era
Take a look into the geological record, and you might just find… plastic?
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We’re Eating A Whole Lot Of Plastic… Uh, Is That Bad?
If you’re the type to get squeamish about the things you accidentally eat, you’re not going to like the new report released by the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) this Tuesday. According to the report, we might be eating a credit card’s worth of microplastic every week, thanks to widespread contamination of…