Although plastic packaging does allow for a longer shelf life, the packaging ... plastic-packaged items like bottled water reportedly have higher levels of microplastic than their non-plastic ...

Humans perhaps unknowingly are spreading the microplastic pollution problem in ... long on the surface of the washing bag after a cycle. Microplastics are also generated in the kitchen from ...

who coauthored a paper published in 2023 that found behavioral changes and brain inflammation in mice after they drank microplastic-polluted water for three weeks straight. Related stories The ...