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The findings of this recent study adds to a growing body of evidence linking microplastics with health harms.
Microplastics are created when everyday products – including clothes, food and beverage packaging, home furnishings, plastic bags, toys and toiletries – degrade.
We sampled sewage sludge from 13 wastewater treatment plants across three states. We found every resident adds microplastics to farmland, in dried sewage sludge (biosolids) used as fertiliser.
The River Nile is contaminated with microplastics.
Recycled plastics are not safe if the chemicals used in creating them in the first place are harmful.
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Research Director, Australian Microplastic Assessment Project (AUSMAP); Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry(Legacy and Emerging Contaminants), Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Biology and Nanotoxicology, Leiden University
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Associate Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
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Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
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Researcher, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Advance Queensland Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Environmental Science, Griffith University
