Microplastic fibers from synthetic clothing have quietly become one of the most pervasive forms of pollution in rivers, ...

CLEVELAND, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CLEANR today launched a new offering that will enable U.S. universities to significantly reduce their microplastic emissions. Under the program, CLEANR will ...

DGIST (President Kuk Yang) announced on the 6th (Wednesday) that a research team led by Professor Lee Ju-hyuck of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering of DGIST, collaborating with the ...

High school students Victoria Ou and Justin Huang developed a pen-sized ultrasonic device that removes microplastics from ...

Crafted by researchers out of Canada’s University of British Columbia and China’s Sichuan University, the “bioCap” purifying filter is comprised of compounds from fruit and wood that are able to ...

There’s no debate that microplastics present an ever-increasing ecological and health threat, with scientists just starting to understand the extent of these tiny particles and their impact on ...

Plastic's resilience makes it great for product packaging, but not so great when it ends up in the ocean. Now, scientists from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden are testing a new filter ...

Microplastics are small plastic pieces of any type of plastic, which are less than 5 mm (0.20 in) in length and are also a subcategory of synthetic microfibers. Microfibers derive from textiles and ...

Campaigners have called on the British government to make it a legal requirement that all new washing machines are fitted with microplastic filters. In an open letter to environment secretary George ...

A study published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution last month looks at how filter-feeding marine animals like baleen whales, manta rays, and whale sharks are impacted by microplastic ...