Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2019
Poisonous particle pollution from brake and tyre wear is carried in runoff then enters rivers and streams. Particles from brake and tyre wear include copper and zinc, microplastics and a group of chemicals called polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Yet, urban runoff persists as a forgotten polluter.
Grist
OCTOBER 17, 2022
When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “ garbage patches ” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics. So where do microplastics come in?
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Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The Baltic Sea had the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, double the amount in the Mediterranean?. • New research from the round-the-world yacht race The Ocean Race* has found microplastics, and in particular microfibres, to be prevalent across the length and breadth of the continent. fragmented fishing gear and lines.
AGreenLiving
AUGUST 20, 2020
But a new study of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean reveals the pollution problem is ten times worse than scientists suspected. The study, just published in Nature Communications , uses data collected in fall 2016. Microplastics threaten both human health and marine life. We knew it was bad. Scientists from the U.K.’s
Planet Pulse
OCTOBER 27, 2020
New research combining Planet’s high cadence satellite imagery and other innovative technologies has successfully found the sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the Caribbean Sea. Over the course of 2016 to 2018, the total area of plastic debris detected skyrocketed from 0.23 The study by Kikaki et al. km2 to 0.77km2.
Unsustainable
OCTOBER 12, 2019
words Brett Stadelmann Pollution caused by the manufacture, dispersal, and disposal of plastics is an issue which, directly or indirectly, affects every individual in the current age, and one which, even if every effort is made to correct it, will have an even greater effect on the next generation. In 2014-15, in Australia, around 2.5
AGreenLiving
OCTOBER 30, 2019
By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded. Over 90% of the plastics found in the ocean is comprised of microplastics, which commonly end up ingested by aquatic animals, often killing them through choking or toxicity. This allows more municipal recycling programs to stay in service.
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