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September 22, 2024 at 10:23 pm

Study Links Cancer And Microplastics As People Born in 1990 Are 2 to 3 Times More Likely To Get Cancer Diagnoses Than Those Born In 1955

It seems like in addition to earlier cancer screenings, we should be paying closer attention to what we are being exposed to and how it’s impacting our health.

May 21, 2024 at 12:44 pm

These Toxic Chemicals Were Once Thought To Keep Us Safe. Now They’re Leaching Into Your Skin Through Everyday Items

PBDEs are associated with negative health effects like cancer.

April 7, 2024 at 9:24 am

Scientists Are Finding Microplastics In Our Arteries, And They May Be Causing Serious Heart Disease

“Electron microscopy revealed visible, jagged-edged foreign particles among plaque macrophages.”

March 14, 2024 at 12:44 pm

Microplastics Found In Sediment Layers Untouched By Humans

Can we ever get this stuff out of the environment?

October 10, 2023 at 12:11 pm

Scientists Say New Plant-Based “bioCap” Device Can Filter Almost All Microplastics From Water

This should give us all hope

August 24, 2023 at 9:36 pm

New Study About Microwaving Plastic Suggests It Releases Toxic Nanoplastics Into Our Food

Please take note!

August 12, 2022 at 5:25 pm

Scientists Discover Superworm That Eats Plastic

Are they the answer to the impending plastic catastrophe?

April 12, 2022 at 4:39 pm

Microplastics Have Been Discovered for the First Time in Human Blood

This is deeply unsettling.

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Study Links Cancer And Microplastics As People Born in 1990 Are 2 to 3 Times More Likely To Get Cancer Diagnoses Than Those Born In 1955

These Toxic Chemicals Were Once Thought To Keep Us Safe. Now They’re Leaching Into Your Skin Through Everyday Items

Scientists Are Finding Microplastics In Our Arteries, And They May Be Causing Serious Heart Disease

Microplastics Found In Sediment Layers Untouched By Humans

Scientists Say New Plant-Based “bioCap” Device Can Filter Almost All Microplastics From Water

New Study About Microwaving Plastic Suggests It Releases Toxic Nanoplastics Into Our Food

Scientists Discover Superworm That Eats Plastic

Microplastics Have Been Discovered for the First Time in Human Blood

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