Author: Frank Landymore
A cave that's been closed off to human visitors for 30 years has been found to contain high concentrations of microplastics — and that should worry you. Such were the findings of a pair of new studies, the most recent of which was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, that used the cave's hermetic seclusion as a way of gauging just how far microplastics have penetrated the environment, and more specifically, subsurface water systems.