Browsing: microplastic

If you are like me, you brush your teeth—too vigorously, I’m told—with a plastic rack of plastic bristles. You use your plastic brush to lather a…

The beginning: a single threadAsingleThread-2 Illustration: Claire Harrup/The GuardianAsingleThread-Pink Illustration: Claire Harrup/The GuardianThe story starts with a single thread of polyester, dislodged from the weave of…

Metal bottle caps can be a significant source of microplastic contamination in beverages, a new peer-reviewed study by France’s food safety agency finds.Researchers compared microplastic levels…