All of the defining images of the coronavirus pandemic seem to feature one thing: plastic.
Rob Picheta writing for CNN, Coronavirus is causing a flurry of plastic waste. Campaigners fear it may be permanent:
PPE has become an additional threat to the world's oceans, which have been choking under the weight of plastic at a rapidly increasing rate.
Rob Picheta writing for CNN, Coronavirus is causing a flurry of plastic waste. Campaigners fear it may be permanent:
PPE has become an additional threat to the world's oceans, which have been choking under the weight of plastic at a rapidly increasing rate.
Nanoplastics – little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser – are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food, and human bodies. Now a new term is gaining attention: nanoplastics. These particles are even tinier than microplastics, and that's a huge problem.
