Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Atmospheric transport is a major pathway of microplastics to remote regions

  • N. Evangeliou,
  • H. Grythe,
  • Z. Klimont,
  • C. Heyes,
  • S. Eckhardt,
  • S. Lopez-Aparicio,
  • A. Stohl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17201-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Plastic pollution is a critical concern across diverse ecosystems, yet most research has focused on terrestrial and aquatic transport, neglecting other mechanisms. Here the authors show that atmospheric transport is a major pathway for road plastic pollution over remote regions.