At Taylor Swift and Beyoncé’s iconic tours last year, countless fans dressed the part by adorning their faces with glitter. But what happens to all that shimmer when the final song ends? Glitter — a ...

Austin, Texas, has a growing microplastic problem in its soil and bodies of water. Danielle Zaleski, a student at the University of Texas' Jackson School of Geosciences, pulled a core sample from the ...

Microplastic pollution has been well-documented in recent years and has caught the public’s attention. Microplastic particles are smaller than 5 mm and can seep through filtration and treatment ...

Microplastics — the tiny pieces of plastic that range from the size of a sesame seed to microscopic particles –are increasingly showing up in our oceans, air and on our dinner plates, and this has ...

Local News Solutions to the microplastic problem Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery ...

Ongoing, fish-inspired research from Germany's University of Bonn could soon make our washing machines more planet-friendly. Professor Alexander Blanke's lab work has been awarded more than $161,000 ...

Last month, Democratic New York City Council Member James Gennaro introduced a bill that would change the way countless New Yorkers do their laundry — by banning laundry detergent pods. More ...

An environmental coalition and the green home products brand Blueland are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to limit PVA film used in billions of laundry and dishwasher pods each year, saying ...

The “micro” prefix in the word microplastics might lead one to think that these tiny plastic particles, by definition less than 5 millimeters in length, are harmless trifles. And though microplastics ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Last month, Democratic New York City Council Member James Gennaro introduced a bill that would change the way ...