Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr Elvis Okoffo from UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences said domestic dishwashers have so far been an unexplored source of plastic pollution. “We demonstrated that plastic containers and utensils washed in dishwashers release …
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