You reach for the salt shaker at dinner without thinking twice. It's something so ordinary, so essential to every meal. What if I told you that the tiny grains you're sprinkling on your food might be ...

Researchers have detected microplastics and other human-made particles embedded in the edible tissue of commonly consumed U.S ...

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 ...

JC Foster’s startup is betting consumers will start caring about what their appliances are made of, not just what they do.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...