The EU's prohibition on microplastics eliminates cigarette smoke pollution

Since May 2018, the EU has been attempting to combat the top ten types of trash seen on Europe's beaches, with cigarette butts being the second most common. It introduced a key directive as part of the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy, which aims to phase out unneeded sing...

SUZUKI PLANS TO LAUNCH A DEVICE FOR OUTBIOARD ENGINES TO COLLECT MICROPLASTICS

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• Suzuki plans to launch a device for outboard engines to collect microplastics.
• This will be the world’s first device of a kind to clean marine plastic pollution.
• Suzuki has developed a device that filters microplast...

Microplastic discovered in Tampa Bay

The grave issues of climate change and pollution have been monitored closely by scientists globally. The University of Florida St. Petersburg and Eckerd College have recently found that the waters of the Tampa Bay have about four billion particles of microplastics. The discovery has led to new inves...

Presence of microplastics in drinking water: Scientists draw attention to a massive environmental challenge

Research study conducted by the team at the University of Surrey and at Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials has drawn attention to the harmful consequences of plastics found in the water streams. The breaking down of these into tiny particles is affecting our aquatic and health systems, claims...

The research about the Microplastics have led the scientists shocked

While its realized that microplastics and other plastic flotsam and jetsam is moved by sea flows, researchers have turned out to be progressively persuaded that little plastic parts are additionally being brought through breezes and precipitation. Prior research led in Tehran, Iran, and Dongguan,...