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Researchers are just beginning to understand how microplastics might be affecting human health. A Reporter visited a lab to ...

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For years, researchers have been documenting the environmental impact of microplastics, and now, they're emerging as a human ...

Plastics are ubiquitous. From packaging to household goods to building materials to automotive components, there are seemingly no limits to where plastics are found in our day-to-day lives.

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and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, produced and processed." - The Boston Globe UMass Lowell offers the first and ...

Less than a tenth of the 400 million tonnes of plastic produced around the world is manufactured from recycled materials, a study shows. Researchers who tracked the global plastics supply chain ...