'Plastic Rain' Is Pouring Down in National Parks....

[PopsnTuff]

The plastic crisis has polluted the world's oceans and created mountains in landfills. Microplastics have been identified wafting on the sea breeze and raining down on top of the Pyrenees. They travel on the winds and slowly drop down from the skies. Now, a new study has found that some of the most untouched areas of the U.S. are seeing 1,000 tons or more of microplastics rain down every year, according to The New York Times.

https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-rain-national-parks-2646170740.html

(If this is old news I wasn't aware of it....unbelievably awful!.....microplastics in the air )

 

[Warrigal]

If humans are still around in a million years they will be able to date sedimentary rocks all around the world by the deposits of plastic. They will also be able to link these deposits to changing climatic conditions and a serious extinction event.

 

[fmdog44]

I read about this a few months back.

 

[Camper6]

I'm skeptical. If it's happening it's all over. I ewant to see it first. I'm looking forward to global warming. The pictures you see about these huge islands of plastic are fake.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

You can google, "NASA Ocean trash pics"

 

[Don M.]

I don't know about "plastic rain", but it is pretty hard to go anywhere, anymore, without seeing some discarded plastic trash alongside the road, or in a parking lot, etc. Eventually, all this waste is going to impact our entire environment.

 

[RadishRose]

I'm beyond disgust!