What Scientists Have Learned From 20 Years of Microplastics Research

What scientists have learned from 20 years of microplastics research

At the broadest level, Thompson, other scientists, and environmental advocates are supportive of measures to limit overall plastic production and ban the most problematic categories of plastic, both of which would indirectly reduce the generation of microplastics.

Plastic pollution: a health crisis in Africa

African leaders must treat plastic pollution as an urgent public health crisis ANALYSIS | SOPHIE MASIKA & LORRAINE MUGAMBI-NYABOGA | Microplastics are all around us. In the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. Those tiny fragments of broken-down plastic waste, are now part of our everyday lives and, alarmingly, our bodies. This World Environment Day, as the world rallies under the banner of #BeatPlasticPollution, we must confront…

How Tanzania can step up its fight against plastic pollution

Plastics can contain harmful chemicals that may seep into the ocean and affect fish, coral reefs and even the people who eat seafood.