There’s Even Plastic in Clouds
Five new places scientists have uncovered plastics. The post There’s Even Plastic in Clouds appeared first on Nautilus.
On the top of Mount Everest, in the Mariana Trench, in the human placenta, and babies’ feces: Plastics are everywhere. They are built to last, and last they do: A plastic bag can endure for 20 years in the environment, and a disposable diaper, soiled or not, up to 200.
When they do finally break down into microplastics—smaller through the global oceans, atmosphere, and soil much in the same way we track carbon and phosphorus.
