No mountain high enough: Study finds plastic in 'clean' airIn this picture taken on May 31, 2021 shows the Himalayan range as seen from the summit of Mount Everest (8,848.86-meter), in Nepal. PARIS, France — From Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench, microplastics are everywhere—even high in the Earth’s troposphere where wind speeds allow them to travel vast distances, a study showed Tuesday. There they tested 10,000 cubic meters of air per week between June and October of 2017 and found all samples contained microplastics. "Plastic leaving the ocean into the air that high—it shows there is no eventual sink for this plastic," he said. Allen said that it also shows that disposing of plastic by shipping it abroad is a flawed strategy.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 22, 2021 04:30 UTC