People in the UK are concerned about microplastic pollution and believe action needs to be taken, polls carried out by Xeros Technology and Matter have found.
Buried in the soil, dotting riverbanks and bobbing along streams: a small Belgian town has waged a years-long fight against creeping pollution from plastic pellets which the EU now has in its sights.The Belgian EU lawmaker Saskia Bricmont is among those pushing for tougher legislation.
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.