Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink ...

Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water, according to ...

Scientists studying how tiny particles of plastic affect our everyday lives say that the amount of nanoplastics found in bottled water is between 10 to 100 times higher than researchers had previously ...

When drinking from a plastic water bottle, you’re drinking more than just water, a new study shows — you’re also consuming thousands of “nanoplastics.” A paper published Monday in Proceedings of the ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

We've all heard about plastic pollution in our oceans, but what about the plastic particles quietly building up inside our bodies? A major European research project called PlasticHeal has taken a deep ...

Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

A new study estimates that adults inhale up to 68,000 microplastic particles per day inside homes and cars, with most particles small enough to reach deep into the lungs. (Image by Nadiia Yakovenko, ...

A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious ...