Tag: microplastic

A boy walks on the plastic waste at the Badhwar Park beach on the Arabian Sea coast on World Environment Day in Mumbai, India, June 5, 2023. Negotiators at UN-led talks in Nairobi have failed to agree on how to advance work towards the development of a global treaty to end plastic pollution. Environmental advocates say some oil-producing governments used stalling tactics designed to ultimately weaken the treaty. Photo: Rajanish Kakade/AP

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U.S. has its first national strategy to reduce plastic pollution — here are 3 strong points and 1 big gap

August 16 | Sarah J. Morath, The Conversation

To curb this flow, 175 nations are negotiating a binding international treaty...

A recent study suggests that plastic water bottles contain tens of thousand of microplastics and nanoplastics. Photo: Stew Milne/AP

Biden announces national strategy to combat plastic pollution

August 16 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

For the first time, the U.S. committed to a national plan...

A blue rectangular piece of microplastic sits on the finger of a researcher with the University of Washington-Tacoma environmental science program, after it was found in debris collected from the Thea Foss Waterway, in Tacoma, Wash., on May 19, 2010. Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP

Growing studies of microplastics question the impact on humans

August 5 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Because microplastics were only discovered in recent years, there are few studies...