One in five NSW waterways has severe microplastic contamination, study finds

One in five NSW waterways has severe microplastic contamination, study finds

A NSW government study finds microplastics in all 120 estuaries sampled, with severe pollution in about 19 per cent of rivers and estuaries.

Microplastics report names top 10 contaminated waterways

A new microplastics report identifies NSW’s Cooks River, Dee Why Lagoon, Muddy Creek and upper Parramatta River as the state’s most contaminated coastal waterways. The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and NSW Department of Environment teamed up to produce a report on microplastic pollution. The report ranks coastal waterways by microplastic concentration in the top 15 centimetres of surface water, from most to least contaminated. The t…