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Plastics

April 2025

  • microplastics unter a stereo scope

    Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time

  • Woman removing trash bag from kitchen bin

    Garbage bag giant fined $8.25m for falsely claiming products were recycled sea plastic

  • SUV drivers line up to collect children from school in rose bay, Sydney, in February 2025.

    Observer letters
    It’s time to consign these giant SUVs to the rubbish heap of history

    Letters
  • Frame filled with empty, discarded plastic bottles and containers.

    Just 9.5% of plastic made in 2022 used recycled material, study shows

  • From burger wrappers to masks, bird nests tell story of throwaway culture

  • Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: Sardines doing well around UK, but struggling in warmer waters

March 2025

  • A sunflower sea star

    Microplastics and pesticides aiding death of sea stars in Washington state – study

  • plastic bottles on a beach

    When plastic reality meets consumerism

  • George Monbiot

    What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care

    George Monbiot
  • Marabou storks scavenge atop a giant pile of waste

    Pollutionwatch
    First evidence of microplastic buildup in bird lungs found in new study

  • Single-use plastic waste on UK and Channel Island beaches ‘up by 9.5% last year’

  • North Sea collision: operation to clear up plastic pellets begins

  • The Guardian view on microplastics: harmful pollution must be curbed

  • The Filter
    Get milk delivered and always buy refills: 20 simple ways to cut down on plastic (and save money)

  • The Audio Long Read
    Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish – podcast

  • The age of extinction
    Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

  • Controlled-release fertilizers can spread microplastics on US cropland – study

  • Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

  • It's complicated
    How plastics are invading our brain cells – video

  • Wooden spoons are making us sick? I thought that was fish slices

    Arwa Mahdawi
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