A summary of an article titled Microplastics are raining down from the sky published by National Geographic on April 15th 2019:
- Microplastics are not only present in the oceans, they are now found in the atmosphere.
- Scientists have detected microplastics falling from the sky at a pristine, remote part of the Pyrenees Mountains.
- Two previous studies have found microplastics present in city air.
- The scientists do not know where these airborne microplastics come from.
- Scientists also do not know the health effects of airborne microplastics which can be inhaled or ingested.
- More ominous, microplastics could be breaking down into nanoplastics.
- Currently, there is no easy way to detect nanoplastics.
- Nanoplastics could be more nasty than microplastics by being more reactive, and being nano-sized, can pass through biological barriers.
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