Wanna Cuppa nano-plastics - put the plastic kettle on ?
https://news.uq.edu.au/2025-12-australians-are-drinking-plastic-particles-their-tea-uq-research-finds
https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au/article/2025/12/increased-plastics-exposure-your-kitchen-kettle
#fossilFuels #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Plastic #Pollution
Single use PET plastic bottles harm gut bacteria with nano-plastics
https://dst.gov.in/Nanoplastics-from-single-use-PET-bottles-harm-gut-bacteria-and-human-Cells
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2025/na/d5na00613a
#fossilfuels #Microplastics #nanoplastics #plastic #pollution
Detecting & Monitoring Nano-Plastics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-025-01733-x
#FossilFuels #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #plastic #pollution #science
An optical sieve—an array of optically resonant voids in gallium arsenide—enables sorting, detecting and counting nanoplastics as small as a few hundreds of nanometres at concentrations as low as 150 μg ml−1 in lake water samples.
#Nanoplastics are #plastic particles smaller than 1,000 nanometers in diameter, or 100 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, and they are polluting our environment and our food, to the extent that they are now being found in human blood, lungs, placenta, and even breast milk.
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/12/nanoplastics-are-everywhere-what-is-the-health-impact-of-these-tiny-particles/
PET Polyethylene terephthalate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452074824000181?via%3Dihub#bb0285
Nanoplastics, and their slightly larger cousins microplastics, are polluting our environment and our food. The study of these tiny particles is still a relatively new field and in this blog post for British Science Week we’ll explore how scientists are
Peter Riley