Microplastics: What's trapping the emerging threat in our streams? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250421162622.htm Microplastics:

What's trapping the emerging threat in our streams? https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microplastics-emerging-threat-streams.html

Aww, what the hell? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/trump-doge-regulations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU8.u83D.RDX7ha2969Mn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#pollution #toxicAir #blacklung #pfas #microplastics #industry

The proliferation of micro plastics correlates to the rise of cancer rate in young people.

#microplastics
#cancer

https://pca.st/podcast/52375d40-eec9-0135-c25e-7d73a919276a

Microplastic: Distribution, Avoidance, Usage by Andreas Fath, 2024

The book presents the entire spectrum of the microplastics problem in our waters, from the collection of water samples to their analysis and interpretation.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-69844-0

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#plastics
#microplastics
#water
#rivers

Perhaps you know about the art collaboration between Herbert Duprat and #caddisflies producing precious #casings?
Inspired by this work, biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra et al. worked about the cases for detecting #plasticWaste before the term #microplastics existed.

A fascinating thread about the scientists' detective work https://bsky.app/profile/aukeflorian.nl/post/3lmeqk4xpnc2m and the study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725005820
#Trichoptera tell about 50 years of #plastics history.

"Microplastics are now a ubiquitous part of our daily physical reality. They suffuse our #air, our #soil, the #food we eat and the #water we drink. They’re being detected everywhere, from Antarctic sea ice to human brains. A new #study published reveals how #microplastics hinder #photosynthesis across a wide range of plant species—including crucial food #crops." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastic-pollution-is-messing-with-photosynthesis-in-plants/

Degradable bioplastics offer a smart solution to nitrogen pollution

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-degradable-bioplastics-smart-solution-nitrogen.html

We're running out of things we can safely enjoy. According to a pilot study, chewing on just one stick of gum is enough to release thousands of bits of microplastic into our saliva.

https://boingboing.net/2025/03/31/microplastics-gumming-up-chewing-gum.html

https://www.europesays.com/1959746/ The Dark Side Of Fast Fashion Business Models #america #business #BusinessModels #ClimateChange #emissions #EnvironmentalImpact #FastFashion #Microplastics #pollution #shein #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #waste #Zara

@Remittancegirl We lived through the apogee of human civilisation, and that's a privilege. But it has been the actions and more pertinantly the inactions of our generation which have ensured that the fall from this high place will be so catastrophic and precipitous that it is impossible to predict whether any recovery will be possible; and that is to our shame.

#Ecocide
#ClimateEmergency
#Microplastics
#ThereIsNoPlanetB

How Microplastics Get into Our Food

Kitchen items—sponges, blenders, kettles—are abundant sources of microplastics that we all consume

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-microplastics-get-into-our-food/

Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, research finds.

From @CNN: The study, currently under peer review, "found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva."

https://flip.it/YQf8rb

One thing fiction can do is show the fight isn't always (or even primarily) in the streets...

https://reckoning.press/its-in-the-blood/

#bookstadon #solarpunk #climatefiction #microplastics #revolution #shortstories @bookstodon @ReckoningMag

https://civileats.com/2025/03/11/op-ed-the-food-system-cannot-become-another-fossil-fuel-industry-escape-hatch/

Microplastic-coated pesticides: this is an environmental disaster! Please see the study about micro-plastics reducing photosynthesis.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423957122

#Microplastics are broken down from the vast quantities of waste dumped into the #environment. They #hinder plants from harnessing sunlight to grow in multiple ways, from damaging soils to carrying toxic chemicals. The particles have infiltrated the entire planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/microplastics-hinder-plant-photosynthesis-study-finds-threatening-millions-with-starvation