Microplastics Are Everywhere In Pennsylvania’s Water – But The Tide May Be Turning

Microplastics Are Everywhere In Pennsylvania’s Water – But The Tide May Be Turning

Article by Nathaniel Warner, Penn State; Lisa Emili, Penn State, and Raymond Najjar, Penn State Researchers have long known that plastic pollution reaches the ocean. But how much plastic is trapped, and where, before it reaches the ocean is far less understood. As professors of environmental engineering, geography and environmental studies, and oceanography at Penn State, we recently led studies mapping how microplastics move through bodies of …