#plastic-pollution — Public Fediverse posts

Why The #Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the #PlasticPollution Crisis. In 2019 a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup conducted major test of technology designed to remove plastic #pollution from the water. It appeared to work, the nonprofit released photos proclaiming its success. But some #scientists noticed something else among accumulated plastic in Ocean Cleanup’s publicity photos - very damaging catch and kill of floating #marine life trapped in the plastic. #environment https://www.llrx.com/2026/07/why-the-ocean-cleanup-hasnt-solved-the-plastic-pollution-crisis/

Microplastic tire pollution found in Brisbane balcony dust https://phys.org/news/2026-07-microplastic-pollution-brisbane-balcony.html

#Brisbane #environment #plastic #microplastics #PlasticPollution #tires

#Servicetweet #News #Umwelt #Environment #Chemie #Chemistry #PlastikKatastrophe #PlasticPollution
🚨 Eine bislang unterschätzte Gefahr des Nanoplastiks ⚠️
🚨 Freisetzung eines Krebsgifts in Wolken unter Sonnenlichteinstrahlung
https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/umwelt/nanoplastik-setzt-in-wolken-unter-sonnenlicht-ein-krebsgift-frei-133711671 1/x

Using Plastic Bottles to Reduce Dolphin Bycatch in Fishing Nets

📰 Original title: Scientists tied plastic bottles to fishing nets – and couldn't believe what happened next…

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/using-plastic-bottles-to-reduce-dolphin-bycatch-in-fishing-nets.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#environment #plasticpollution #dolphinconservation #fishingnets

Tiny plastics in drinking water may be making dangerous bacteria stronger https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260714225532.htm

#environment #water #DrinkingWater #plastic #microplastics #PlasticPollution #bacteria

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/from-rivers-to-mangroves-microplastics-are-contaminating-the-amazon/

#Amazon #environment #waters #rivers #plastic #microplastics #PlasticPollution

Microplastics reach even 2,000 meters below the ocean surface, study finds https://phys.org/news/2026-07-microplastics-meters-ocean-surface.html

#ocean #environment #plastic #microplastics #PlasticPollution

#PlasticPollution in #ShootingRanges and warfare areas - an overlooked #environmental issue

Andrés Rodríguez-Seijo, et al. 15 July 2026

Abstract
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic #contamination, such as #HeavyMetals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by #plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, #PlasticWads or #landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun ammunition, alternative materials (biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."

Read more:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771

#EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredBirds #AmmunitionPollution #ProtectNature

Where Waves Carry Plastics

The classic theory of steady wave motion predicts a phenomenon called Stokes drift, in which particles spread horizontally in the direction of wave travel. That means that something like microplastics will drift in the direction that waves are traveling. But in the real world, ocean waves aren’t quite so neat and unchanging. A new study looks at what happens when waves are decaying in strength–in other words, what happens in our world when the wind dies down.

In those circumstances, the researchers found that particles did not just drift horizontally–they drifted vertically, too. Further, how much a particle drifts vertically depends on its initial depth. Since plastics vary in their buoyancy–and can be found in varying numbers and sizes throughout the upper layer of the ocean–this mechanism could significantly affect how waves mix and transport pollution. (Image credit: N. Jensen; research credit: T. Izawa et al.; via Physics World)

Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed
#Health #HeartHealth #HeartAttack #Science #Tobacco #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Environment #Pollution #AirPollution #PlasticPollution #Smoking
https://the-14.com/do-patients-who-suffer-heart-attack-have-more-micro-and-nanoplastic-in-their-blood-new-study-assessed/

Science? What's that?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-justice/735162/no-expert-evidence-court-ruling-on-plastic-fuel-plant-stuns-environment-waste-group
#plasticPollution #evidence #science

Microplastic pollution can fuel rise in antibiotic resistance, studies find https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/microplastic-pollution-can-fuel-rise-in-antibiotic-resistance-studies-find/

#environment #plastic #microplastics #PlasticPollution #antibiotics #AntibioticResistance

🇬🇧 Bluewashing: the UN says Global Agreements are saving the seas. Are they?

When decades-old success stories are used to reassure us about an ocean crisis that's only getting worse.

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The UN celebrated Naples' cleaner beaches as proof that international diplomacy is "saving the seas." But a cleaner beach from the 1970s ≠ a healthier ocean today.

🎬 Seaspiracy: do ocean institutions deliver change or just reassurance?

🎬 Ocean: ecosystems can recover — but only when protection is enforced.

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What the UN glosses over:

🐟 70%+ of Mediterranean fish stocks overfished

♻️ 2,000 garbage trucks of plastic dumped daily — treated as a footnote

🧪 PFAS ("forever chemicals") — not mentioned at all

💶 Environment Fund reminders — conflating regional success with global solution

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International agreements help. But managing symptoms ≠ solving the crisis.

Never mistake a cleaned-up beach for a saved sea.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mbz2mhah

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🇮🇹 Bluewashing: l'ONU dice che gli accordi globali stanno salvando i mari. È vero?

Quando i successi di decenni fa vengono usati per rassicurarci su una crisi oceanica che peggiora.

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L'ONU ha celebrato le spiagge di Napoli più pulite come prova che la diplomazia sta "salvando i mari". Ma spiaggia più pulita ≠ oceano più sano.

🎬 Seaspiracy: le istituzioni marine producono cambiamenti o solo rassicurazioni?

🎬 Ocean: gli ecosistemi possono recuperare — ma solo con protezione reale.

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Cosa l'ONU trascura:

🐟 70%+ degli stock ittici nel Mediterraneo sovrasfruttati

♻️ 2.000 camion di plastica al giorno — trattato come nota marginale

🧪 PFAS ("forever chemicals") — non menzionati

💶 Fondo per l'Ambiente — successo regionale confuso con soluzione globale

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Gli accordi internazionali aiutano. Ma gestire i sintomi ≠ risolvere la crisi.

Mai scambiare una spiaggia pulita per un mare salvato.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/46x87x7b

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#Bluewashing #OceanCrisis #Sustainability #UN #Greenwashing #PlasticPollution #Overfishing #MarineConservation

Reading in journal club

Yang et al. @ Nature Nanotechnology
Diverse origins and chemical complexity of nanoplastics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-026-02168-3

#plasticpollution #nanoplastics

DATE: July 13, 2026 at 02:15AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: Gray Whales Facing "Catastrophic" Depletion From Climate Crisis

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=190774&url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/10/pacific-gray-whales-population-climate-change

Source: The Guardian - Climate Crisis

Climate change is driving a gray whale "catastrophic mortality event" in the Pacific Ocean as melting sea ice depletes food sources and the whales starve, environmental groups warn. Meanwhile, ship strikes, oil spills, and microplastic pollution are also likely contributing to a die-off that has nearly halved the whales' estimated population. The population has fallen from 20,000 in 2019 to fewer than 13,000 in 2026, and the deaths appear to be...

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=190774&url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/10/pacific-gray-whales-population-climate-change

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Why Polypropylene Bags Are Replacing Single-Use Plastics Across Modern Packaging Operations
#Environment #Economy #Packaging #PackagingIndustry #Polypropylene #PlasticPollution #SingleUsePlastic #Sustainability #Logistics #EcoFriendly #WasteReduction
https://the-14.com/why-polypropylene-bags-are-replacing-single-use-plastics-across-modern-packaging-operations/

Plastic pollution and drug-resistant infections are two of the biggest crises facing humanity, but they are usually considered separately by scientists and policymakers. New research is finding deeply concerning links between them.

My latest article for Mongabay.com explores how microplastic pollution is enhancing antimicrobial resistance.

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/microplastic-pollution-can-fuel-rise-in-antibiotic-resistance-studies-find/ #plasticpollution #antimicrobialstewardship #drugresistance

Death by plastic.
#environment #plasticpollution #microplastics #health #australia
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260706-australia-faces-a-plastic-pollution-crisis-and-action-is-long-overdue

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/6/17/plastic-poisons-primates-one-focus-of-2026-american-society-of-primatologists-conference

#environment #wildlife #primates #plastic #PlasticPollution

Common plastic chemical linked to lifelong anxiety in new study https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260616102221.htm

#environment #plastic #PlasticPollution #health #anxiety

Microplastics in over 75% of pet food, study finds https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39yx1kr2z0o?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon

#environment #plastic #microplastic #PlasticPollution #pets #food #nutrition

Episode 41 - Microplastics in food: What we (don’t) know https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/podcast/episode-41-microplastics-food-what-we-dont-know

#health #food #plastic #microplastics #PlasticPollution