Imari Walker-Franklin | Microplastics Bae | PhD, Researcher at RTI & contributor to the study, said: “This not only presented some of the most urgent questions to address regarding tire particle pollution but also provided actionable steps for researchers, industry & regulators to take.” ow.ly/vgUq50U9pWM

🚨 Calling all Microplastic and Plastic Pollution Researchers and policy makers! The Research Triangle Health Collaborative in coordination with RTI International is hosting its 2025 Summit titled, "Local Solutions to a Global Problem: Microplastics in North Carolina".

Huge review article just released suggesting that microplastics have the potential to harm reproductive, respiratory and digestive human health. Additionally they make linkages of microplastic exposure to colon and lung cancer pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Promising climate news that satellites can now identify methane super emitters! wired.com/story/satellit…

While conducting experiments on microplastics settling dynamics when aggregated with algae, we noticed something curious: with high particle conc, behavior was different. We now assessed how settling behavior is influenced by other particles in suspension. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Excited to announce that I got the opportunity to speak about microplastics in food on the Tamron Hall Show and share with her my book Plastics an The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social EKS If you missed the episode, here is a short clip from it! youtu.be/cs6KUEWUIRA youtu.be/cs6KUEWUIRA

Microplastics have now been detected in skeletal tissue. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Seabirds chicks have been shown to ingest plastic waste provided by their parents and damaged include harm to their stomach lining, cell rupture and neurodegeneration similar to Alzheimer’s. New paper in science: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We have a preprint in review about #microplastics and #nanoplastics in human tonsils. See doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.… The quantity and type of MPs and NPs vary greatly from person to person. And, no, It is not just PE plastics (false positive artefacts) Why this much variation?

Really excited for this!

Throwback Saturday!

#Circularity2025 is now underway and our team is very excited to be here! Come stop by the RTI International booth #115 and check out our panel tomorrow at Bluebird 3E from 9:00-10:00am to ask our Scientists about microplastics and the circular economy

Show us your team photos at #Circularity ✨

🍺This week Newsweek spotlighted Jennifer Hoponick Redmon’s “Hold My Beer” study, showing how PFAS in your pint links back to local water quality. Read the article: newsweek.com/map-beers-cont…

Had a fun moment today realizing my most-viewed YouTube video (70K views!) is a short reel on expectations vs. reality for environmental engineers. Love seeing interest in this interdisciplinary field. If you’re curious, check out the 10-sec short here: youtube.com/shorts/SX-FNNV…

The gavel has been struck today for the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on #plasticpollution Excited to observe these negotiations and connect with other experts in this space.