Microplastics

Microplastic in compost poses risk to food safety: research

Health Science & Environment The Wire 22 March 2025

A new study from Griffith University has discovered alarming levels of microplastics in compost samples across Victoria.  Each kilogram has...

Microplastics: a hidden hazard

The Wire

Microplastics are plastics smaller than five millimetres in diameter, and they’ve become a concern for researchers.They’re considered as emerging pollutants...

Australia’s worst beaches for microplastics mapped

The Wire

Microplastics; they are the tiny fragments of plastic pollution permeating our beaches, rivers and oceans and they’re everywhere. New research...