Microplastics are everywhere in Pennsylvania’s water – but the tide may be turning

Microplastics are everywhere in Pennsylvania’s water – but the tide may be turning

Microplastics are settling into Pennsylvania's rivers and marshes. Philippe Gerber/Moment Collection via Getty ImagesResearchers have long known that plastic pollution reaches the ocean. But how much plastic is trapped, and where, before it reaches the ocean is far less understood. As professors of environmental engineering, geography and environmental studies, and oceanography at Penn State, we recently led studies mapping how microplastics mov…

Microplastics are in all places in Pennsylvania’s water – however the tide could also be turning

Researchers have lengthy recognized that plastic air pollution reaches the sea. However how a lot plastic is trapped, and the place, earlier than it reaches the sea is a ways much less understood. As professors of environmental engineering, geography and environmental research, and oceanography at Penn State, we not too long ago led research mapping how microplastics transfer via our bodies of water throughout Pennsylvania. What we discovered wa…