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There’s just no getting away from microplastic contamination
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1066" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/microplastics-can-travel-on-the-wind-polluting-pristine-regions/" target="_blank"><strong>There’s just no getting away from microplastic contamination - Ars Technica</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>And we still don’t know where a huge portion of our plastic waste even ends up.</strong></p><p></p><p>Microplastics may be having a moment in the spotlight, as the public is increasingly aware of their presence in the environment around us. But as more evidence of their presence comes to light, it’s becoming clearer that we don’t yet have a handle on how big or bad the problem is. A huge amount of small plastic particles end up in the sea, but recent research has also found them in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0080-1" target="_blank">lakes</a> and <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b06003" target="_blank">mountain river floodplains</a>, and even as <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468584417300119?via%3Dihub" target="_blank">airborne</a> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749116312325?via%3Dihub" target="_blank">pollution</a> in <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11356-017-0116-x" target="_blank">megacities</a>.</p><p></p><p>A new paper in <em>Nature Geoscience</em> reports finding microplastics in a region that should be pristine: the French Pyrenees Mountains. The researchers estimated that the particles could have traveled from as far as 95km away, but they suggest that it could be possible for microplastics to travel even farther on the wind—meaning that even places relatively untouched by humans are now being polluted by our plastics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1066, member: 1"] [URL='https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/microplastics-can-travel-on-the-wind-polluting-pristine-regions/'][B]There’s just no getting away from microplastic contamination - Ars Technica[/B][/URL] [B]And we still don’t know where a huge portion of our plastic waste even ends up.[/B] Microplastics may be having a moment in the spotlight, as the public is increasingly aware of their presence in the environment around us. But as more evidence of their presence comes to light, it’s becoming clearer that we don’t yet have a handle on how big or bad the problem is. A huge amount of small plastic particles end up in the sea, but recent research has also found them in [URL='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0080-1']lakes[/URL] and [URL='https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b06003']mountain river floodplains[/URL], and even as [URL='https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468584417300119?via%3Dihub']airborne[/URL] [URL='https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749116312325?via%3Dihub']pollution[/URL] in [URL='https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11356-017-0116-x']megacities[/URL]. A new paper in [I]Nature Geoscience[/I] reports finding microplastics in a region that should be pristine: the French Pyrenees Mountains. The researchers estimated that the particles could have traveled from as far as 95km away, but they suggest that it could be possible for microplastics to travel even farther on the wind—meaning that even places relatively untouched by humans are now being polluted by our plastics. [/QUOTE]
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