The elective medical industry is cashing in on plastic pollution fears, but the evidence of harm from microplastics is still ...

Statistics show if that if you're not filtering your water the right way, your family is likely consuming microplastics. An overwhelming 94% of U.S. tap water is contaminated with fragments of plastic ...

Consuming any liquid from a plastic waterbottle is one of the sure ways to consume microplastics, with single-use plastic ...

Boiling water before drinking it could be "a viable long-term strategy" for reducing global exposure to microplastics, ...

Microplastics appear to be present in filtered solutions used for medical intravenous infusions, with about 7,500 particles/L found in infusion solutions from polypropylene (PP) bottles filtered to ...

People who chew around 180 pieces of gum a year could be ingesting roughly 30,000 microplastics, the researchers said.

Low exposure, the kind we all face from eating, drinking, and simply existing in polluted environments, may cause internal ...

A new study finds that microplastics seem to contribute to more chronic diseases in coastal areas of the United States. Rates of stroke, high blood pressure and diabetes are higher in coastal or ...

In today’s health headlines: microplastics in the brain, how far off are brain implants, and is detoxing from social media possible?

While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics, which are smaller than one micrometer (1/50th the thickness of an ...

The ads watchdog has censured OceanSaver for making unsubstantiated environmental claims, following a complaint from homecare ...

Consumer products company Grove Collaborative targeted the low recycling rate for plastic packaging in its April 1-timed news ...