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After less than a month of being exposed to microplastics in their diet, the mice developed clear dementia symptoms.

Neuroscience and Brain

Lab Mice Exposed to Microplastics Show Signs of Dementia

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that touching receipts used can transfer high amounts of a possibly toxic chemical in a matter of seconds.

You Might Not Want to Touch Receipts After Seeing This Horrifying Research

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that eating hot food from plastic takeout containers could be damaging your heart and even lead to heart disease.

This New Paper About Eating Out of Plastic Containers Is a Bit Terrifying

By Frank Landymore

The number of children dying to diseases has surged in the past half century as the manufacturing of synthetic chemicals has skyrocketed.

Scientists Say Children Are Getting Sick and Dying in Huge Numbers Due to Chemicals and Plastics

By Frank Landymore

An online directory that directed people to locations where they could drop off plastic bags and film to be recycled has been shut down.

Government Program to Recycle Plastic Bags Canceled After “Abysmal Failure”

By Sharon Adarlo

This writer argues that, though flawed, the anti-plastic straw movement marks a rare, meaningful moment for the anti-plastic movement.

The Anti-Straw Movement Was Dumb, Annoying, and… Actually Worked?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consumer groups are saying that the EPA hasn't done enough to battle Inhance, a producer of PFAS-riddled plastic food and cosmetic containers.

EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so permanent and huge that living beings are migrating from thousands of miles away to get in on the plastic action.

Science & Energy

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Teeming With Trash Life, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

The process to create Chevron's "biofuels" from plastic waste would be so toxic, it could quite literally cause cancer — and the EPA approved it knowingly.

Virtual Reality

Chevron’s Jet Fuel Made From Plastic Very Likely to Cause Cancer, EPA Documents Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

What if we told you that you could literally build buildings out of plastic bags and water bottles?

Science & Energy

Startup Turns “Unrecyclable” Plastic Into Giant, Indestructible Construction Bricks

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new German study concluded that 97 percent of blood and urine samples from 2,500 chidlren between three and 17 showed toxic levels of plastic byproducts.

Scientists Tested Children and 97 Percent Contained Toxic Plastic Byproducts

By Victor Tangermann

This Week in Science: Oct 6 – Oct 12

This Week in Science: Oct 6 – Oct 12

By Victor Tangermann

Oil Will Be Used Less for Fuel, More for Plastics and Fertilizers

Oil Will Be Used Less for Fuel, More for Plastics and Fertilizers

By Jon Christian

Plastics Made Without BPA Might Also Be Bad For You

Health & Medicine

Plastics Made Without BPA Might Also Be Bad For You

By Jon Christian

You’re Probably Drinking Microplastics With Your Bottled Water

You’re Probably Drinking Microplastics With Your Bottled Water

By Alexandra Ossola

coral reef ocean pollution plastics

An Ocean of Plastic Is Choking the World’s Most Precious Coral Reefs