In the latest findings illustrating the potential dangers of everyday-use items such as food packaging and water bottles, tiny shards and particles of plastic have been found in semen and in ...

Simply using your food packaging in the manner it's supposed to be used is enough to contaminate your comestibles with a ...

Volunteers spent the day picking up trash, weighing it, and getting it off the beach at 12th Street Beach, in part to keep plastics out of Lake Michigan.

Mayor Craig Greenberg is encouraging people in Louisville to make small changes towards reducing single-use plastic ...

Scientists have found microplastics in human men's semen and women's reproductive fluids, raising fertility concerns.

Microplastics, plastic fragments 5 millimeters or smaller, have been found in just about every part of the human body. To ...

Microplastics were present in 69% of the follicular fluid samples analysed. The most frequently detected polymer was PTFE, found in 31% of the samples, followed by PP (28%), PET (17%), PA (14%), ...

New research presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) ...

Microplastics aren’t just everywhere — they might be turning your dinner into a breeding ground for supercharged pathogens.

Microplastics get into your body through food, water, and air, says Stephanie Wright, PhD, a senior lecturer in environmental ...

Microplastics have been found nearly everywhere in the human body. Experts explain how harmful they may be for our health, ...

A growing body of research warns that these nearly ubiquitous tiny particles, under 5mm in size, pose a threat to ...