High blood pressure, diabetes and stroke rates are higher in coastal or lakefront areas with greater concentrations of ...

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 ...

New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine ...

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, ...

University of Manchester scientists have discovered significant concentrations of microplastics in the male reproductive ...

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 ...

Microplastics are pervasive in our environment and can contaminate our food through kitchen items like old plastic containers ...

Make a few easy changes in your kitchen to help cut down on microplastic exposure — here's how to get started.

According to the study's estimate, an average individual chomping through 160 to 180 small sticks of gum annually could end ...

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