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Jul 22, 2020

Chemists make tough plastics, which include epoxies, polyurethanes, and rubber used for tires, recyclable. New method for producing thermoset plastics allows them to be broken down more easily after use.

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Jul 14, 2020

Car tyres are major source of ocean microplastics – study - 200,000 tonnes of tyre and brake particles blown from roads into seas every year

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May 22, 2020

Microplastic pollution in oceans ‘vastly underestimated’ - Particles may even outnumber the zooplankton that underpin marine life and regulate global climate

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Apr 22, 2020

Microplastics found for first time in Antarctic ice where krill source food. Researchers at University of Tasmania find 14 different kinds of plastic smaller than 5mm in an ice core from 2009.

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Apr 13, 2020

An enzyme that breaks down 90% of plastic for recycling in 10 hours

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Mar 27, 2020

Scientists find bacterium that breaks down plastic

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Mar 27, 2020

Scientists unearth extremophile bug that feasts on toxic plastic

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Feb 28, 2020

World's deepest waters becoming 'ultimate sink' for plastic waste

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Dec 28, 2019

Microplastic pollution is raining down on city dwellers, with research revealing that London has the highest levels yet recorded. The rate of microplastic deposition measured in London is 20 times higher than in Dongguan, China, seven times higher than in Paris

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Jun 05, 2019

Wild bees are building their homes from plastic — and scientists aren’t sure why

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Jun 05, 2019

The average person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity, according to the first study to estimate human ingestion of plastic pollution. The scientists reported that drinking a lot of bottled water drastically increased the particles consumed.

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Jun 01, 2019

Researchers have found that wild bees in Argentina are building their nests using strange materials. The insects have been building nests made entirely of plastic waste.

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Apr 19, 2019

Six-decade plankton study show how ocean plastic waste problem has grown to global emergency, based on records from the continuous plankton recorder, a torpedo-shaped marine sampling device that has been towed across more than 6.5 million nautical miles of ocean over the past 60 years.

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