Microplastics Pollution Archives

Tougher Measures Urgently Needed From The International Maritime Organisation To Curb Plastic Pellet Pollution

October 4, 2022 Giacomo Abrusci, SEVENSEAS Media Editor-in-Chief Issue 89 - October 2022, Ocean Literacy, Stories from the Sea

All Photo Credit Ed Marshall – Plastic nurdles, Norfolk, January 2019. A new report by international wildlife conservation charity, Fauna &[…]

RiceUNews: Microplastic Pollution Aids Antibiotic Resistance

January 3, 2022 Giacomo Abrusci, SEVENSEAS Media Editor-in-Chief Issue 80 - January 2022, News, Stories from the Sea

Engineers at Rice lead study of how polystyrene contributes to the crisis The Styrofoam container that holds your takeout cheeseburger[…]

Sunlight Can Bake Plastic Waste Into a Soup of Tens of Thousands of Organic Molecules

October 3, 2021 Giacomo Abrusci, SEVENSEAS Media Editor-in-Chief Issue 77 - October 2021, Ocean Literacy, Stories from the Sea

By Mark L. Friedman Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it’ll eventually crumble into a[…]

colourful plastic waste in the sand on the beach

Plastics, waste, and recycling: It’s not just a packaging problem

September 23, 2020 Giacomo Abrusci, SEVENSEAS Media Editor-in-Chief Health & Sustainable Living, Issue 65 - October 2020, Terrestrial Topics

By the University of Arizona Discussions of the growing plastic waste problem often focus on reducing the volume of single-use[…]

New Microplastic Pollution Research Reporting Guidelines Released

June 2, 2020 Giacomo Abrusci, SEVENSEAS Media Editor-in-Chief Issue 61 - June 2020, News

Researchers from Hawai‘i Pacific University and NIST and other organizations produce easy-to-use documents for scientists: Seeing the need to standardize the[…]

Manta with plastic in Indonesia - Elitza Germanov, Marine Megafauna Foundation

Microplastics on the menu of manta rays and whale sharks

November 20, 2019 Giacomo Abrusci, SEVENSEAS Media Editor-in-Chief Issue 55 - December 2019, Stories from the Sea

By Elitza Germanov, Marine Megafauna Foundation Plastics pollute Indonesian feeding grounds of plankton-feeding ocean giants Plastic pollution has a tremendous impact[…]