Plastics articles
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The 'godfather of microplastics' talks about the challenges of halting plastic pollution
Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets, and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology PhD student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, but the next day, there’d be more. [Photo: University of Plymouth] I’m now a leading international expert on microplastics, a term I coined on May 7, 2004, to describe fragments of plastic measuring as small as a millionth of a meter. As I work to help reduce the grip of...
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GREEN: Trudeau government should end war on plastics for sake of the environment
Here’s the shocker: Meng shows that for 15 out of the 16 uses, plastic products incur fewer GHG emissions than their alternatives. Read that again. When considering 90% of global plastic use, alternatives to plastic lead to greater GHG emissions than the plastic products they displace.
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Scientists develop new method for quantifying 'invisible' plastics in rivers
Current methods to count plastic pollution in rivers are insufficient and do not account for the fragments that sink below the surface, a team of scientists has warned.