Flying microplastics? Researchers find plastics on remote French mountaintop

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By Leta DickinsonApr 15, 2019, 8:01 pm297 pts
Plastic takes a ton of energy to produce and lasts hundreds of years. It accumulates in our food web, fills our landfills, and now, tiny microparticles have been found in the most pristine and remote parts of the French Pyrenees. Is nothing sacred anymore? The new study measured the amounts and sizes of…

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