It’s raining plastic: microscopic fibers are falling from the sky

It’s raining plastic: microscopic fibers are falling from the sky

Posted by on Aug 15, 2019 @ 7:14 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: August 13, 2019

Plastic was the furthest thing from Gregory Weatherbee’s mind when he began analyzing rainwater samples collected from the Rocky Mountains.“I guess I expected to see mostly soil and mineral particles,” said the US Geological Survey researcher. Instead, he found multicolored microscopic plastic fibers. The discovery, published in a recent study titled “It is raining...

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