Why Microplastics are Literally Falling from the Sky, Even in Remote Regions

We know that microplastics are in the ground (and wind up in fruits and vegetables), in the water, and in our bodies. We've also learned microplastics actually fall from the sky. In 2019 a scientific paper in Nature Geoscience reported that microplastics were falling from the sky over the Pyrenees Mountains in France—"a remote, pristine mountain catchment" with no obvious nearby sources. "We suggest that microplastics can reach and affect remote, sparsely inhabited areas through atmospheric...