Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
WE already know that microplastics are everywhere, but sometimes the news of another discovery of just how much they have permeated our world still has the capacity to be frightening. A study published on February 28 was one such piece of news, and if it had been the only one, it would have been disturbing enough. In the days since, however, there have been two additional ones.
The first was a research project conducted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada, wherein the researchers sought to determine the concentration and sources of microplastics, if any, in nine boreal lakes in northwestern Ontario. The lakes were selected for their isolation and near-total lack of human presence; there are few roads and no other infrastructure except for a research station about 15 kilometers from the lakes, and the two nearest settlements are 31 km and 52 km away, respectively. Six of the nine lakes do not even have names.
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