Plastic contamination is rampant in bottled water. That was the unsettling conclusion of a study published last year in Frontiers in Chemistry that analyzed samples taken from 259 bottled waters sold ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

Plastic is everywhere, from the Arctic ice to human placenta. In fact, previous estimates suggest that the average person ingests a credit card-worth of microscopic plastic particles every week. But ...

The bottled water that Americans pick up at the grocery store can contain 10 to 100 times more bits of plastic than previously estimated, according to a new study published in a peer-reviewed journal ...

“Previously, [nanoplastics] was a dark field,” says Beizhan Yan, an environmental chemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, as the pieces of plastic are so tiny that it’s been ...

New research reveals that a liter of bottled water contains an average 240,000 microscopic plastic particles. The health impact is unclear.

A recent study analyzed three brands of bottled water and found a liter contained an average of 240,000 pieces of plastic The average liter of bottled water contains a quarter of a million pieces of ...

Using advanced imaging technology, researchers have ascertained the number of nanoplastics – bits of plastic smaller than a micrometer – in bottled water, finding that, on average, a liter contains ...

The Wayne County Commission is hosting plastic bottle return events starting Monday, Feb. 16.