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The nurdle hunters: is combing UK beaches for tiny bits of plastic a waste of time?

More than 170 tons of plastic particles are floating in the world’s oceans – and millions of them wash up on our shores.

Airborne plastic particles in cloud water

Tiny plastic particles have reached clouds, contaminating ‘everything we eat’ via rain, study warns

Airborne plastic particles in cloud water could impact rapid cloud formation and potentially affect the climate
How plastics are poisoning us
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How plastics are poisoning us

Plastics release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them? Elizabeth Kolbert writes for The New Yorker

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How plastics are poisoning us

They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them?
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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LISTEN: The man who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is still trying to stop ocean pollution

In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic has permanently damaged marine ecosystems and even altered evolution — and the problem has only grown larger.

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Adrienne Matei: Plastic is already in blood, breast milk, and placentas. Now it may be in our brains

The particles could be linked to cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.

Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The oceanic soup of plastic fragments is becoming a new kind of ecosystem.
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