US Plastics Industry Dumps Almost Half a Billion Gallons of Wastewater Daily

US Plastics Industry Dumps Almost Half a Billion Gallons of Wastewater Daily

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“Plastics plants are poisoning our waters and contaminating our bodies—and EPA needs to do its job and protect our waterways and downstream communities,” said one watchdog leader. Amid fears over President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a government watchdog on Thursday called out the EPA for letting the plastics industry pollute…

Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins – new research shows.
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Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins – new research shows.

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Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins – new research shows. Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet – on land, in the…