Tag: Microplastics
Federal Environment Agency brings restrictions into play
Low water in the Rhine near Bingen A limitation of municipalities and cities could be the withdrawal of water from rivers to protect the water bodies from drying out. (Photo:…
Microplastics Found That They Can Get Inside Our Brains
A new study on microplastics has revealed that these particles can penetrate into the brain. This situation reveals that humanity is at great risk. A group of scientists working at…
Start-up from Lower Saxony wants to eliminate microplastics from the world
Dusseldorf Getting rid of microplastics with the help of bacteria – the start-up Bioweg from the small town of Quakenbrück in Lower Saxony is working on this idea. The microbes…
Microplastics Detected in Human Blood
A study conducted in the Netherlands revealed a striking fact. With the new research, it has been proven for the first time that microplastics are found in human blood. Moreover,…
Microplastics May Cause Intestinal Diseases
Scientists have found a link between inflammatory bowel diseases and microplastics. According to the findings, people with these diseases either accumulate too much microplastic in their bodies, or those who…
Babies’ Feces Have 10 Times More Microplastics
Scientists from the New York University School of Medicine have published a study showing that the amount of microparticle plastic in babies’ stools is 10 times greater than that of…