Plastic waste by no means actually breaks down. It simply splits into tinier and tinier items till it turns into trillions of microscopic bits scattered internationally. Microplastics are in every single place: Within the air we breathe and the water we drink, atop the best mountains and within the deepest components of the ocean. Microplastics are even coursing via our bloodstreams and sitting in our digestive techniques. It is an issue we have now solely just lately begun to know, and are nonetheless attempting to determine resolve.
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This week on Gadget Lab, Matt Simon, WIRED local weather author and writer of the brand new ebook A Poison Like No Different, joins us to speak about how microplastics grew to become such a scourge and what—if something—we are able to do about it.
Present Notes
Matt’s ebook A Poison Like No Different: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Our bodies is out now. Learn an excerpt of the ebook on WIRED. You can too discover different Matt Simon tales about microplastics and the local weather by searching his writer web page.
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Matt recommends Derry Women on Netflix. Lauren recommends a plastic or metallic water bottle that you should utilize time and again. She likes the 32-ounce slender mouth Nalgene bottle. Mike recommends bringing again Observe Friday on Twitter.
Matt Simon may be discovered on Twitter @mrMattSimon. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the principle hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Photo voltaic Keys.
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