Plastic dust is blowing into U.S. national parks—more than 1000 tons each year

Science mag ^ | Jun. 11, 2020 | Erik Stokstad

[Fester Chugabrew]

“We created something that won’t go away,...”

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Neither will Hillary, so there.

[lurk]

So the plastics target the national parks. It is good that they avoid populous areas, or we would have a problem.

Do they use Google Maps to get to the parks?

[Bryan24]

The really impressive thing is how it falls on the National Parks and not everywhere else.

[Bob434]

can we farm it and turn them into straws since there aren’t any anymore?

[Wuli]

If my math is right, the 1,000 tons over the western U.S. states (1.873 million sq miles) comes to about .9 pounds per sq mile. I don’t know about you but that sounds like an amount nature can manage.

[pointsal]

Ban vacuum cleaners and leaf blowers.

[Verginius Rufus]

It's all because the movie The Graduate made plastics popular.

[Scrambler Bob]

I no longer trust scientist to be honest.

[insert here] COEXIST [image]

Better meld that ‘Science’ (settled is even better) with ‘COEXIST’.

BLM Brainless Morons

[Dusty Road]

50 to 100 tons of cosmic dust settles on the planet daily.

[minnesota_bound]

Most of the smog in Los Angeles comes from China.