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Plastic Pollution

News about the wave of plastic pollution overtaking the globe, written and selected by journalists and scientists at Environmental Health News
Suspended microplastics churning in water column
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Eight million tons of plastic tornadoes are churning in our oceans

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Vegetables stored in plastic bags.
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How we ingest plastic chemicals while consuming food

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The interior of a room that has been burned in a fire
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As wildfires mount, so do efforts to use less plastic

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A woman and a child cleaning plastic trash out of a water source
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Great Lakes microplastics: How they get there, how they spread, and why the picture remains murky

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green grasshopper perched on yellow flower in close up photography during daytime
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Bugs fed microplastics grow to ludicrous size

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A pile of plastic waste and other trash in a landfill
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Plastic waste costs billions, Duke study says

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A small girl blowing bubbles from a plastic bubble maker
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Is plastic poisoning our children?

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Recycling 'worsens microplastics problem'

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Boom in burning waste for fuel puts human health and environment at risk

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Lead and arsenic found in Camber Sands bio-beads

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Study warns of accelerating plastic load in Dead Sea

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We asked plastics experts how they (sustainably) decorate for the holidays

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