Professor Kevin Thomas, Centre Director of UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences spoke with The Guardian about the plastic-free lab researching how plastic absorption occurs and if it is harming humans.
In one of the world’s first plastics contamination-controlled laboratories, University of Queensland researchers have begun testing blood and tissue samples to develop ways to detect and measure nanoplastics in the human body.
Labelling of plastic products needs a drastic overhaul including a new "sustainability scale" to help consumers, according to research from The University of Queensland and University of Exeter.