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BellingenNSW<p>Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests</p><p>"The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study."</p><p>"The human body is widely contaminated by microplastics. They have also been found in blood, semen, breast milk, placentas and bone marrow. The impact on human health is largely unknown, but they have been linked to strokes and heart attacks".<br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/03/levels-of-microplastics-in-human-brains-may-be-rapidly-rising-study-suggests" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/feb/03/levels-of-microplastics-in-human-brains-may-be-rapidly-rising-study-suggests</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plastics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/anthropogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropogenic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microplastics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/nanoplastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nanoplastic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contamination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MNP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/polyethylene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polyethylene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PolymerBasedParticulates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolymerBasedParticulates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/body" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>body</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/OneHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>5 firms in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plastic</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’ 5 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/chemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemical</span></a> companies which promised to divert plastic from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> produced 132m tonnes of it, analysis finds <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossilfuels</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a> - two types of plastic; <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/polyethylene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polyethylene</span></a> (<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PE</span></a>) and PP (<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/polypropylene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polypropylene</span></a>) in five years – more than 1,000 times the weight of the 118,500 tonnes of waste plastic the alliance has removed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ExxonMobil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonMobil</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Dow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dow</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shell</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TotalEnergies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TotalEnergies</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ChevronPhillips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChevronPhillips</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Raman Microspectroscopy evidence of microplastics in human semen</p><p>Research published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, detected eight different plastics. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Polystyrene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polystyrene</span></a> was most common, followed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polyethylene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polyethylene</span></a>, used in plastic bags, and then <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pvc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pvc</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724036696" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S0048969724036696</span></a></p><p>NMP Pollution of Placenta <br><a href="https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/199/1/81/7609801" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/toxsci/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/199/1/81/7609801</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nanoplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nanoplastics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microplastics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endocrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endocrine</span></a> disruption <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Toxicology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toxicology</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Study identifies <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungus</span></a> that breaks down ocean plastic<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-06-fungus-ocean-plastic.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-06-fungus-o</span><span class="invisible">cean-plastic.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Biodegradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biodegradation</span></a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/polyethylene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polyethylene</span></a> by the marine fungus Parengyodontium album <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724029668" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S0048969724029668</span></a></p><p>"A fungus living in the sea can break down the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plastic</span></a> polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers expect that many more plastic degrading <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> are living in deeper parts of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a>."</p>
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