Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The last decade has seen some progress with studying plastic pollution, but there are still significant challenges, such as a lack of comparability of reported results, especially when it comes to microplastic particles. We measure particle size in all samples. Some 11 million tons of plastic waste enter the oceans every year.

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Microplastics Pollution Plastics Health 261

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Microplastics are everywhere: We know that much. Even the definition of “microplastics” is slippery. Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. And not all rivers carry the same load of microplastics.

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Microplastics Plastics Soil Waste 223

Grist

JUNE 10, 2022

The tire particles pollute air, water, and soil and contain a wide range of toxic organic compounds, including known carcinogens, the analysts say, suggesting tire pollution could rapidly become a major issue for regulators. Air pollution causes millions of early deaths a year globally. and California proposed a ban this month.

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Pollution Microplastics Organic Soil 121

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Novel entities – Emissions of toxic and long-lived substances such as synthetic organic pollutants, heavy metal compounds, and radioactive materials represent some of the key human-driven changes to the planetary environment.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Although some policymakers have taken steps to protect people from EDCs — the European Commission, for example, in 2022 proposed stricter labeling regulations that would require companies to alert consumers of their hazards — many in the field believe the overarching response has been incommensurate with the scale of the crisis.

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Plastics Health Microplastics Pollution 130

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

Researchers from Washington-based advocacy organization Environmental Working Group said they had calculated that eating one fish in a year equated to ingesting water with PFOS at 48 parts per trillion, or ppt, for one month. This contamination of water has spread PFAS to soil, crops and wildlife, including fish.“For

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Seafood Pollution Health Soil 263