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News– <\/b>Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic<\/strong> <\/span>fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles. In the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic <\/span>particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That\u2019s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles. \u201cWe just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,\u201d says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. \u201cThe number was just so large, it’s shocking”<\/p>\n

Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions. By deploying scrubbers in power plants to control the former, and catalytic converters in cars to control the latter, the US and other countries have over the last several decades cut down on the acidification problem. But microplastic has already corrupted even the most remote environments, and there\u2019s no way to scrub water or land or air of the particles\u2014the stuff is absolutely everywhere, and it\u2019s not like there\u2019s a plastic magnet we can drag through the oceans. What makes plastic so useful\u2014its hardiness\u2014is what also makes it an alarming pollutant: Plastic never really goes away, instead breaking into ever smaller bits that infiltrate ever smaller corners of the planet. Even worse, plastic waste is expected to skyrocket from 260 million tons a year to 460 million tons by 2030, according to the consultancy McKinsey. More people joining the middle class in economically-developing countries means more consumerism and more plastic packaging.<\/p>\n

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