Just how bad is the world's plastic problem? Natural History Museum
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Updated 1:11 PM PST, January 8, 2024. The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long figured there were lots of these microscopic plastic pieces, but until researchers at Columbia and.
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Microplastics could trigger cloud formation and affect the weather, new study suggests. In that past study, Mason found each tainted liter of water held an average of 10 plastic particles wider.
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To begin addressing the negative effects of plastic pollution in our region, the County of Los Angeles is considering an ordinance to reduce single use plastic in unincorporated areas. The proposed policy would phase out the distribution of disposable food serviceware that is not compostable or recyclable.
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The world's plastic pollution crisis explained Much of the planet is swimming in discarded plastic, which is harming animal and possibly human health. Can it be cleaned up? By Laura Parker.
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The Ocean Protection Council voted to make California the first state to adopt a comprehensive plan to rein in the pollution, recommending everything from banning plastic-laden cigarette filters.
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This week's study, published Jan. 8 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses a newly developed laser technology to find even smaller fragments, upping the number of.
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June 30, 2022 — Today, CA took decisive action to fight plastic pollution, signing into law SB 54—the nation's most comprehensive and ambitious policy to address pollution from single-use plastic packaging and foodware. Read the full statement. The Problem Our plastic problem is bigger than you think.
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January 9, 2024 at 11:38 AM PST. Listen. 3:45. A typical one-liter (33-ounce) bottle of water contains some 240,000 plastic fragments on average, according to a new study. Many of those fragments.
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Plastic is a polymeric material—that is, a material whose molecules are very large, often resembling long chains made up of a seemingly endless series of interconnected links. Natural polymers such as rubber and silk exist in abundance, but nature's "plastics" have not been implicated in environmental pollution, because they do not persist in the environment.
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Phthalates, which are typically added to plastics to make them pliable and soft, are used in plastic food wrap, vinyl flooring and personal care products like deodorants, nail polish, hair gels,.
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Attacks by Iran-backed militants in the Red Sea have effectively closed one of the world's main trade routes to most container ships — vessels that carry everything from car parts to Crocs.
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Nearly 1 in 5 pieces of trash nationwide is a single-use plastic item. Less than 10% of all single-use plastics is recycled. That means tons of non-degradable plastics will hog our landfills for millennia and blight L.A. neighborhoods and oceans.
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Bad Plastic #2 - Unrecyclable. Mixed materials - a recycling nightmare. A large percentage of the plastic products we use cannot be recycled. Most government policies aimed at reducing the amount of plastic waste that goes to landfill, fail to address this fundamental issue.
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The initiative — known as the California Recycling and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act — would require all single-use plastic packaging and food ware used in California to be recyclable,.
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Researchers found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. Most of them were nanoplastics — particles less than 1 micrometer in size.