Rats on a high-fat diet that ingested the green tea- and vitamin E-based beads lost 17% of their body weight with no ...

The California legislature has passed two key environmental bills aimed at reducing toxic chemicals and microplastic ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Despite poor success within the past year, yet another bill has been proposed in the Michigan ...

The bills now await a decision from Gov. Gavin Newsom. Legislators declined to act on a bill that had backing from plastic ...

Fat-blocking microbeads made with green tea, vitamin E and seaweed could offer a new way to lose weight and a potential alternative to popular GLP-1 drugs and bariatric surgery, according to ...

Weight-loss interventions, including gastric bypass surgery and drugs that prevent dietary fat absorption, can be invasive or have negative side effects. Now, researchers have developed edible ...

Products containing plastic microbeads would be banned in Hawaii under a bill passed by the state Legislature. In July 2023, all personal care products except for nonprescription drugs containing ...

Thousands of microbead pellets from a ripped pool toy scatter across the surface of Lake Tahoe in early July 2021. (Alison Toy/UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center) A new trend of pool toys ...

1. A research team at NIMS has successfully developed an environmentally friendly, microspherical fluorescent material primarily made from citric acid. These microbeads emit various colors of light ...

The microplastics glitter is made of actually accounts for 92.4 percent of the 270,000 tons of plastic in the sea. Remember when President Obama signed the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015? It banned ...