Plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade, and most of it does not even make it to the recycling bin. A 2017 study showed that of the 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic ever created, only 9 ...

Courtesy Jack Myer/The university of Texas at Austin What This Scientist Says You Need to Know About Hundreds of Thousands of Plastic Particles in Your Drinking Water (Exclusive) His solution ...

Previous estimates and computer simulations indicated that 22 million pounds of plastic debris ... humans consume 0.1 to 5 grams — or an amount similar to the size of a credit card — of ...

Fast food giant McDonald's is speeding up its move to minimize the use of plastic in its restaurants in Europe, where legislation on single-use items is becoming increasingly restrictive. BRUSSELS, ...

Stapleton: A microplastic is anywhere between one micron and five millimeters in size. That’s about the ... significantly higher concentrations of plastic particles in them than the tissues ...

All of the volunteers had consumed food or beverages stored in plastic wrapping, bottles, or containers. Six of the 8 had eaten fish from the sea, not plastic fish but real fish. And the stool ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, by weight, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Some 8 ...

By Helen Massy-Beresford Attention supermarket shoppers in Belgium, France and Luxembourg: a test to cut waste from plastic packaging of foods is coming to nearby stores. Retailers Carrefour and U ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

There are many ways to store data—digitally, on a hard disk, or using analog storage technology, for example as a hologram.