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London Marathon 2019 makes refreshing move to offer water capsules in seaweed pouches to runners instead of plastic bottles
Bikram Vohra •The London Marathon 2019 run on Sunday will go down as the first ever major international event that fought the plastic blight by offering the 5,000 odd runners water capsules in an edible pouch made from a seaweed membrane
Airborne plastic particles have gone as far as remote mountaintops, study claims
•Microplastics have been discovered even in tap water world over, including the far reaches of Antarctica.
Flushed contact lenses add greatly to microplastic pollution in oceans: Researchers
•Plastic waste created by lenses in the US alone is equal to 400 million toothbrushes every year.