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No matter where you are on our planet or what you do, you are now exposed to micro and nanoplastics. There are many pathways of these particles into our bodies, organs, and even our brain and heart. This VCC aim to provide comprehensive trusted information on the potential health impacts of the ubiquitous plastic pollution we have created in less than 70 years. We aim to build awareness, facilitate understanding, find solutions, built capacity, and reduce the impacts of plastics on environment and health. The images is from Zhang and You (2024, DOI: 10.102/acs.est.4c00010).

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[Feb. 27, 2024] Microplastics accumulation in human placental specimens: “If we are seeing effects on placentas, then all mammalian life on this planet could be impacted. That’s not good.” Prof Matthew Campen, University of New Mexico, US. See the Guardian article by Damien Carrington published on 27 Feb 2024.

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[Apr. 25, 2026] The Plastic Detox: Jack Seale made strong points about the danger of plastic pollution in his review of the Netflix documentary “The Plastic Detox”. The title of the review published in the Guardian says it all: “The Plastic Detox review – a film so terrifying you will want to change your life immediately.”

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[Apr. 25, 2026] World Happiness Report Finds Positive Impacts of Collaborative Platforms: The World Happiness Report 2026 has a strong focus on the impacts of social media and the Web in general on human happiness. The results of most studies indicate that the use of most social media seems to have a negative impact on happiness, while those tools that generate trust and collaboration have a positive impact. The report sumarizes: “Internet activities fall into two groups. Communications, news, learning, and content creation are associated with higher life satisfaction. Social media, gaming, and browsing for fun are associated with lower life evaluations.” This supports the mission of Place4Us as a trust-focused collaborative platform for intercreativity and learning.

[Apr. 25, 2026] Neurodivergence VCC opened: The "Made by Neurodivergence VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[Apr. 21, 2026] SlaveryToday VCC opened: The "Fighting Modern Slavery VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[Apr. 19, 2026] Earth Energy Imbalance is Increasing Rapidly: Finally the extreme increase in the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is slowly starting to make headlines - far too late, though. The article “ What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?” by Jonathan Watts published in the Guardian explains some of the basics. Importantly, the EEI double within only 13 years. In another article by Watts also in the Guardian and titled “ Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high” the author points out that the World Meteorological Organization warned that Earth is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming the oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies. Considering that Earth is more like a pool house with a very large pool than a greenhouse, the ocean is only delaying the heating of the atmosphere but not preventing it.