‘It is raining plastic’: Scientists find colorful microplastic in rain
It’s raining plastic — that’s what a survey of rainfall in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, concluded recently.
They couldn’t see the plastic with their naked eyes, but found it using a binocular microscope fitted with a digital camera.
It’s unclear where the plastic is coming from, but plastic contamination has been a growing problem throughout the world.
An earlier study found that people are swallowing an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, about the weight of a credit card.
It’s unclear what the health effects of living with all this plastic will be, scientists say, although several studies are underway.
While some companies have made it a goal to scale back their use of plastic, President Donald Trump Tuesday made an appearance at a Pennsylvania plastic manufacturing plant to promote plastic. When asked by a reporter about how he felt about the world being “awash in plastic,” the president blamed China for the problem.
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