Business Waste used the latest studies to create shocking images that illustrate how high levels of microplastic exposure can ...

Microplastics have been found in numerous organ systems and even in the human brain. It's impossible to avoid them altogether, but you can cut back, researchers say.

but also from the wear of all objects incorporating plastic (clothing, tires), and that particles are, for example, emitted with each opening or closing of a plastic bottle. The response to the ...

Plastic pollution has become so widespread that we may be inhaling up to 130 tiny pieces a day, research found. Fibres from ...

A Nike shopper says the brand changed its once 100% cotton Dri-FIT socks to include polyester, sparking a debate about clothing quality.

I wasn’t particularly scientific when I milked that blood from my fingertip. Plastic fibers from my clothing or packaging could easily have made their way into my sample, and the same is true ...

Clothing is mostly invisible in the archaeological ... where we take away water and we wrap them in plastic, and we make them into giant sarcophaguses, which have got really fabulous conditions ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects. By Nina Agrawal Nina Agrawal shadowed ...