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Cambridge University researchers have found bacteria that prefer to eat plastics over organic matter to consume carbon compounds.

Researchers have detected microplastic particles from samples of fresh snow taken from nineteen sites tested across Antarctica.

Researchers have found over a dozen kinds of microplastics at least 3μm in size in lung tissue samples taken from living humans.

Microplastic particles have been detected in human blood samples for the first time, including PET, polystyrene, and polyethylene.

Almost two hundred nations at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi have agreed to create a plastic treaty.

Surgical masks adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic pollute the ocean by the billions, releasing millions of microplastics each.