No matter where you go, you won’t be able to escape the nightmarish plague of microplastics that is absolutely devastating our environment. Microplastics are in the air that you breathe, they are in the water that comes out of your faucet, they are in the rain that falls from the sky, and there are countless microplastic particles inside your body right now. When you throw away a piece of plastic, you probably never think about it again, but it doesn’t go away. In fact, a plastic trash bag that you may have thrown out decades ago could have disintegrated into thousands upon thousands of tiny microplastic particles at this point. Needless to say, humanity as a whole produces giant mountains of plastic waste each year, and things have already gotten so bad that microplastic particles can now be found “from the highest mountains to the deepest marine trenches”… (Read More...)