The title of the article I wrote about is called “Microplastics are blowing in the wind” written by Carolyn Gramling.
This article talks about tiny micro plastics that carry in the wind, from cities, to remote areas. They can travel 59 miles away, at least. New studies show, plastics are not just staying in one polluted area, they travel very quickly, and lots of new plastic drops from the wind every day. It is not a little bit of plastic, but lots. To find out how much plastic can be dropped into a location, the researchers put two big containers in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain, and visited it around every month for five months. They took that plastic when they visited, and counted all of the plastic at the end of the five months, and there was lots of it, “plenty” the article says. “An average 365 micro plastic particles per square meter (10.7 square feet) per day landed at the sight.”
These plastics came from regular things we use in our lives, like Styrofoam. Things like Styrofoam can easily be lifted into the air.
This is a very serious thing to talk about in this generation, because our lives are surrounded with plastic that is devouring our planet. Micro plastics are everywhere in our world, and we need to make a change, if we truly care what happens to ourselves, the next generation, and our earth. Hopefully we can change things before it is too late. I have hope that we can.
Why is plastic ubiquitous?
How long until single use plastics are banned anywhere in the United States?
Why aren’t plastic bags banned in Michigan?
