Microplastics are an inevitable part of our daily life, as the minuscule pieces of plastic shed and breakdown into our water, air, dust and food. These nano-sized pieces of plastic can be found in ...

Nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists today ... so if you are eating food that has little bits of blue and red in there, these are attracting ... other contaminants in the ocean.

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

The new pilot study instead sought to illustrate yet another little-researched way that these mostly invisible plastic pieces ...

Inside its gut, seven squiggles of plastic, dyed with Nile red stain, fluoresce. All over the world, researchers like Magadini are staring through microscopes at tiny pieces of plastic—fibers ...

That raises the odds that just hatched fish will mistake plastic bits for food and eat them. “The most critical moment is that first feeding,” Whitney said. “If they get a piece of plastic ...

The company believes the pieces of plastic broke off of a conveyor belt and got into the food. Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an Editorial ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers have said, also warning of ...