New study finds people may inhale 68,000 microplastic particles a day from homes, cars, and everyday surroundings.

Thousands of microscopic plastics in the air of homes, offices and cars may be endangering our health, according to a new ...

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, analyzed two years of data on sewer ...

Scientists find concentrations 100 times higher than previous estimates, with most particles small enough to penetrate lungs.

Most indoor air contains tiny plastic dust particles that we breathe daily without realizing the possible health risks.

New research finds that people are inhaling thousands of particles of plastic that “enter deep into our respiratory system” ...

Environmentalists are constantly talking about how much plastic waste there is in the world, and with good reason. Plastic ...

Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in human brains, but there is not yet enough ...

There’s no escaping plastic. It’s in the oceans, in Arctic snow, and now, more alarmingly than ever, in the very air we ...

A PLOS One study finds indoor air contains up to 68,000 microplastics daily. Learn where they come from, how they’re measured ...

In a new study, scientists from the Université de Toulouse in France quantified just how much plastic dust we may be inhaling ...

Lancet study reveals plastic pollution causes serious human health problems from factory production to waste disposal.