Microplastics detected in the marine air from Norway to the high Arctic

Every time I see an article about a new place where microplastics have been found (blood, brains, babies), I feel like this is a battle we already lost before we even knew it was a battle.<p>Although this article seems to be more about particles from wear and tear on tires and clothes, which I always felt was a separate issue from plastic packaging that ends up in sea. But maybe I&#x27;m wrong about that.

So, uh, is this bad? I mean, it doesn&#x27;t sound good on the face of it and we should probably try to avoid, but have microplastics been implicated as responsible for any specific environmental harms we know of yet?

This is going to turn out to be this generation&#x27;s lead paint + asbestos all in one, isn&#x27;t it?

I carry a bag, don&#x27;t use straws(drink water from coconuts without one), use public transportation or walk, use gadges i buy for decades, plant trees and what not to protect th environment around me. The toughest task is convincing people around me to become eco friendly. It got be gov that could put an end to this madness

<i>Measured concentrations reached up to 37.5 nanograms (that’s a billionth of a gram!) per cubic meter of air.</i><p>Nearly nothing, in other words... not that it matters anyway, because it&#x27;s all practically inert. Perhaps they will serve as evidence to future historians of an era of progress before radical misguided environmentalism took over and plunged civilisation into another dark age.

I wonder how much of this is just the instruments&#x2F;sensor. Are those sensors manufactured in clean room?<p>Microplastics are literally everywhere in the city, making it hard to gauge outside a clean room.

Is this a story about increased pollution or about improved microplastics detection tech?