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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] CleoTheWizard 6 points 2 months ago

Also depends on where you’re measuring. They make up a ton of the plastics in stormwater runoff for example. Sometimes up to 95% from what I found. And that stormwater often ends up in our drinking water.