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Current development and news about microplasticsActivists Ask Shipping Lines to Stop Exporting Plastic Waste to Developing Countries!
Environmental and social activists around the world have called upon major shipping lines to prove...
Plastic found in commercial fishmeal products at global scale
Plastic (as both micro- and macro- plastic) is an important environmental contaminant, affecting...
BBC: “UK plastic waste dumped by Turkish roadsides in Adana city!”
An investigation by BBC News has found that some plastic waste from Britain sent to Turkey for...
Mediterranean dirty edge: High level of meso and macroplastics pollution on the Turkish coast
First results of our project Microbeach has been published in Environmental Pollution journal. In...
WHO calls for more research into microplastics and a crackdown on plastic Pollution
The World Health Organization (WHO) calls in 22 August 2019 for a further assessment of...
Millions of kilograms of USA’s dirty plastics shipping to Turkey
A report published by The Guardian last day, each month, about 10 ships pull into the ports of...
Plastic input from municipal solid waste and wastewater
Debris released by human activity on land can be washed by surface runoff or blown by wind into...
How plastics enter the food web
There has been widespread publicity about pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris...
Microplastics found in gut of every sea turtle around the world
Microplastic was found in the gastrointestinal tracts of every single sea turtle examined in a new...
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