By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 27, 2024 3:10 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Researchers at the University of British Columbia say they’ve come up with a portable device that can cheaply detect the amount of microplastics in drinks and other liquids. Tianxi Yang, who developed the … Read more
Wet wipes containing plastic will be banned from being sold in the UK following legislation to be tabled in Parliament soon, the British government announced on Monday, as the world marked as Earth Day. UK Environment Secretary Steve Barclay said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) will table the legislation for England … Read more
Health Canada is funding new research that will look into the potential risk to humans of microplastics that are found everywhere and could be toxic. Researchers at three Canadian universities — McGill University, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Toronto — have been tasked to study “the potential exposure to microplastics from various … Read more
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 Rutgers universities did their calculations they never … Read more
