Bangladesh's sprawling textile industry is spewing toxic wastewater into its rivers
Out of a total of 2,220 factories in Gazipur, only 556 have effluent treatment plants on paper.
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Into the 'plastisphere': Scientists comb Japan waters to study new eco threat | Life
SHIMODA, Oct 31 — A boat’s crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan’s Izu peninsula, but not to catch fish — they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution’s impact on marine life. Tiny floating fragments from plastic packaging, synthetic clothing...
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Here, there and everywhere, the microplastics in tap water threatening health and wellbeing
Stockholm, Sweden, March 8, 2021 – A new study published by researchers at the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center found microplastics in 100 percent of samples taken from 50 iconic rivers, lakes and streams in Pennsylvania. The researchers described their finding as troubling and said “it’s clear that the scope of plastic pollution in Pennsylvania extends far beyond what was previously thought”. Dave Noble, spokesperson at Bluewater, a Swedish water company battling the need for ...
United States Dave Noble National Natural Science Foundation Of China Pennenvironment Research Policy Center Bluewater Pr Communications Researchers At England University Of Portsmouth
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