Sources and exposure pathways to micro nano plastic particles in terrestrial ecosystem agriculture. The accumulation and poor management of plastic fibers and particles remains a pressing global issue ...

Wood-plastic composites (WPC) have a wide range of applications in outdoor decking, automotive interior substrates, packaging, furniture, housing, and cladding, and their current worldwide production ...

Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also disrupt sex hormones, a Rutgers laboratory trial shows that plastic itself can do likewise when inhaled at moderate levels.

In the last decade, growing numbers of researchers have studied plastic pollution, one of the world's most pressing environmental hazards. They have made progress but still face challenges, such as ...

Micro- and nanoplastics accumulate in human brain tissue at concentrations significantly higher than in the liver or kidneys, ...

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for ...

The production of plastic and the amount of waste plastic that enters the ecosystem increases every year. Synthetic plastics gradually break down into particles on the micro- and nano-scale in the ...

Researchers modeled the journey of microplastics released in wastewater treatment plant effluent into rivers of different sizes and flow speeds, focusing on the smallest microplastic fragments — less ...

If you regularly grab a hot coffee or tea in a disposable cup, you might want to think twice. A new study led by environmental scientist Xiangyu Liu of Griffith University in Australia found that ...

Rivers are major pathways for terrigenous plastics to the ocean, yet the spatio-temporal variability of plastic flux remains poorly quantified. Here, we conducted annual field monitoring of plastic ...

A new study used a pioneering technique to deliver endocrine-disrupting aerosolized micro-nano-plastics to female lab rats. Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also ...