Why is There Plastic in Our Rain?

Every year more than 1,000 tons of plastic rains down onto national parks and wilderness in the western U.S. Where does that plastic come from? And is it also in rain that falls on Washington, DC?
#microplastic #pollution #plasticrain

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver

Writer/Host:
Sam Jones, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Leila Duman, PhD
Christine Knauss, PhD
Jesse Meiller, PhD
Alterra Sanchez, PhD


Sources:
Laboratory Methods for the Analysis of Microplastics in the Marine Environment
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/publications-files/noaa_microplastics_methods_manual.pdf

What are microplastics?
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/microplastics.html

Marine debris fact sheet
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/fact-sheets/microplastic-marine-debris-fact-sheet

Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic organisms: a review
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34226995/

Time to Safeguard the Future Generations from the Omnipresent Microplastics
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34223933/

Microplastics and human health
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6530/672

Synthetically engineered microbial scavengers for enhanced bioremediation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34218189/

Microplastics in the soil-groundwater environment: Aging, migration, and co-transport of contaminants - A critical review
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34186423/

The potential effects of microplastics on human health: What is known and what is unknown
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34185251/

A review on occurrence, characteristics, toxicology and treatment of nanoplastic waste in the environment
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34173146/

Evidence from in vitro and in vivo studies on the potential health repercussions of micro- and nanoplastics
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34162123/

Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain
https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain/

Plastic Rain: More Than 1,000 Tons Of Microplastic Rain Onto Western US
https://earthsky.org/earth/microplastic-rain-western-us/

Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1257

Microplastics are raining down from the sky
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/microplastics-pollution-falls-from-air-even-mountains

Forget acid rain. Plastic rain is now falling across the U.S.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/12/plastic-rain-now-falling-across-u-s-new-study-found/3174549001/

It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/12/raining-plastic-colorado-usgs-microplastics

‘It is raining plastic’: Scientists find colorful microplastic in rain
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/14/health/plastic-rain-colorado-trnd/index.html

Imari Walker on microplastics
https://today.duke.edu/2020/09/imari-walker-mission-protect-our-health-microplastics

Duke’s Imari Walker Uses YouTube to Explain Dangers of Plastic Water Bottles in Entertaining Fashion
https://sullivanfdn.org/imari-walker/

Quantification of Microplastics and Microfibers on U.S. National Park Beaches
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/research/quantification-microplastics-and-microfibers-us-national-park-beaches

The microplastics crisis: you are the first responder
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/microplastics-crisis/

In utero exposure to di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate and duration of human pregnancy.
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.6202

Bisphenol A (BPA)
https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/index.cfm

Effects of the Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical DDT on Self-Renewal and Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286277/

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