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Topic: Microplastic

Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

Plastic-eating microbes found in Alps

Matthew Rozsa
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Oregon bans PFAS in food containers

Joseph Winters - Grist
A man holding a non-stick pan with a damaged coating (Getty Images/Elena Gurova)

You eat microplastic when Teflon cracks

Matthew Rozsa
Mom breastfeeding a baby (Getty Images/istetiana)

Microplastics found in human breast milk

Matthew Rozsa
Silkworm spinning silk (Getty Images/baona)

Silk may help solve microplastic problem

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic contaminations in a glass of water (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Tire particles are destroying lakes

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic garbage lying on the Aegean sea beach near Athens on June 26, 2018 , Greece. (Getty/Milos Bicanski)

It's raining plastic

Charlotte Stevenson - Undark
A water main manhole cover in a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Citizens take on the plastics industry

Myron Levin - FairWarning
A volunteer of the NGO 'Canarias Libre de Plasticos' (Canary Islands free of plastics) carries out a collection of microplastics and mesoplastic debris to clean the Almaciga Beach, on the north coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife, on July 14, 2018. (Getty/DESIREE MARTIN)

Microplastics leaching into food systems

Nicole Karlis
A volunteer of the NGO 'Canarias Libre de Plasticos' (Canary Islands free of plastics) carries out a collection of microplastics and mesoplastic debris to clean the Almaciga Beach, on the north coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife, on July 14, 2018. (Desiree Martin/Getty Images)

Nowhere is safe from plastic pollution

Rebecca Dzombak - Massive Science
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Plastic is probably harming your health

Robin Scher - Independent Media Institute
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