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Tag: microplastics

15JUN

Plastic, Plastic Everywhere

Going beyond the ‘reuse, reduce, recycle’ model to curb plastic pollution   I turn off the alarm on my phone, slowly wake up, turn the fan switch off, and head to the bathroom. I push paste out of a tube onto my toothbrush, and brush my teeth. Then, I scoop water out of a peach-coloured […]

Posted in: Climate, Climate Change, Longform, Longform, Out of the labTagged: bioplastics, Climate Change, microplastics, Plastics
28SEP

Tale of Two Rivers

How pollutants like microplastics and fertilisers are damaging riverine ecosystems   It’s 2022, which means that if the word “river” crops up in a conversation among college students, it would most likely be in the context of a Buzzfeed quiz that seeks to categorise them into a type of river. With the vast number of […]

Posted in: Out of the lab, ResearchTagged: cauvery, chemistry, fertilisers, mahanadi, microplastics, pollution, river, spectroscopy, zebrafish

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