Tiny bits of plastic are now falling from the skies

[Mike Wehner]

• Scientists have found that plastics are invading protected regions of the United States in ways never before known.
• Tiny bits of plastics are raining down from the skies and floating freely in the air, with over 1,000 metric tons of the material being deposited into protected areas of the western US every year.
• These protected areas, like national parks, are dealing with human trash despite efforts to prevent exactly that.

Plastics are great and also terrible. They're great because they're durable, cheap, and have a seemingly endless number of uses. Unfortunately, those same things are also what makes them terrible, at least for the environment. Plastics are everywhere, from the most remote islands to the middle of the oceans, and a new study reveals that they're even raining down on us from above.

When you see a piece of plastic trash on the ground, you're only seeing part of the problem that plastics pose from an environmental standpoint. Plastics we can see, gather, and dispose of properly are one thing, but tiny microplastics that invade every nook and cranny on the planet are an entirely different and more serious concern.

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