Microplastics (particles <5mm) enter our bodies every day via air, food and through our skin. It is estimated that each person consumes between 74,000 to 121,000 particles per year. Increasing evidence through studies on the blood, heart and brain show possible health risks. Read more about this in our blog.

Bio-based products as a sustainable alternative? A critical analysis shows: Even "green" plastics can release microplastics and form unknown pollutants. Why complete Life-Cycle-Assessments are crucial.

Microplastic analytics requires innovation - existing methods are reaching their limits. Wasser 3.0 detect MP-1 enables rapid, selective, and cost-effective microplastic screening. Citizen science can contribute to expanding data. Effective standardization requires abandoning outdated methods. Read more in our blog.

Microplastics permeate our bodies through food, air and water - an involuntary " Plastification in our lifetime". Inflammation, hormonal imbalances and cell damage are possible consequences. Even unborn babies are affected. Solution: Reduce plastic, use alternatives, get politicians to act.

The much-cited claim that we are ingesting "5 g microplastics per week = 1 credit card" is based on a methodologically questionable WWF study from 2019. Marketing systematically misuses this unvalidated figure for product advertising and donations, even though more recent studies show significantly lower figures. Real solutions need solid science instead of shock figures.

This May, in a unique campaign with schools, an environmental protection organization, the River Queich was sampled for microplastics across its entire surface

Collecting microplastic samples at a municipal wastewater treatment plant and monitoring microplastic levels over the long term poses major challenges for both wastewater treatment plant operators and microplastic analysts. For municipal wastewater treatment plants, the question of how much wastewater needs to be analyzed to make a representative statement about contamination is also coming into focus and is reason enough to take a closer look at this topic.