List of articles on microplastics

Forests capture microplastics in the atmosphere, demonstrated by Japan Women's University and others

 A research group led by Japan Women's University, together with Waseda University, has determined that microplastics in the atmosphere are adsorbed to epicuticular wax on leaves […]

Waseda University and others demonstrate for the first time that microplastics exist in cloud water

 Research groups such as Waseda University, Toyo University, and PerkinElmer Japan LLC are the world's first small […]

Hokkaido University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology demonstrate that microplastic additives migrate to fish in the food chain

 A research group at Hokkaido University Graduate School (Takaaki Hasegawa et al.) and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Prof.

Elucidating the history of microplastic pollution over the past 75 years from marine sediments in Beppu Bay

 A research group consisting of Ehime University, Matsuyama University, University of Shizuoka, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology […]

Waste plastic in the environment, 5% leaked to the sea Kyushu University, etc. Estimated

 Professor Atsuhiko Isobe of the Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, and Researcher Shinsuke Iwasaki of the Cold Region Civil Engineering Research Institute of the Civil Engineering Research Institute have thrown them into the environment since the 1960s […]

Environment: Microplastics that travel long distances

Environment: Long-distance movement of microplastics […]

Fish take in microplastics through prey organisms rather than from water Hokkaido University

 Marine pollution from plastic waste is progressing all over the world, and by 2050, the amount of plastic waste in the world's oceans is expected to be higher than that of fish. […]