It’s raining men! On second thought, no, that’s polypropylene. Japanese scientists climbed the mist-enshrouded peaks of Mount Fuji to test the content of the clouds for microplastics and discovered nine kinds of polymer and a helping of rubber. We already knew that the sea, the Pyrenees, and the Arctic were contaminated, but, c’mon, not the clouds—that’s where dreams are born! This research confirms that we are inhaling the harmful pollutants and that rainfall means we are suffused in a plastic ball pit of the atmosphere

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/28/japanese-scientists-find-microplastics-are-present-in-clouds

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