'It is raining plastic': Scientists find colorful microplastic in rain

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It's raining plastic, a survey of rainfall in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, concludes. Scientists found that plastic showed up in 90% of the samples, mostly in fiber form, and came in a variety of colors.

It's raining plastic -- that's what a survey of rainfall in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, concluded recently.

The rainfall survey, titled"It is raining plastic," was put together by scientists at the US Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey. There's a new culture divide between Trump and corporate AmericaThey couldn't see the plastic with their naked eyes, but found it using a binocular microscope fitted with a digital camera.They found plastic showed up in 90% of the samples, mostly in fiber form, and came in a variety of colors.

"Well, we have tremendous plastics coming over from Asia, from China, and various others," Trump said."It's not our plastic. It's plastic that's floating over in the ocean and the various oceans from other places. No, plastics are fine, but you have to know what to do with them. But other countries are not taking care of their plastic use and they haven't for a long time.

 

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By cnn standards Lemon is guilty of sexual assault so why is he still employed?

greta Remember when paper was so bad because it was killing so many trees? Give it 20 years and we will be told we need go back to plastic.

It's unbelievable

Why isn't the plastic industry paying for the cleanup? Oceans generate rain producing fronts. All of Earth oceans have plastic. TaDa! Pay up.

🤔🤔. Soon it will rain paper in form of cash

I've hauled plenty of plastics.From the beads they make everything out of to recycled colorful shards to make children's outdoor slides

It's also raining BS!

What a frightening thought. Climate change, humans ruining the world and Trump backs out of the Climate Accord What a very uninformed idoit!

greta I remember acid rain was big with environmental liberals in the 1980s

That’s because you ate spraying it into our atmosphere idiots.

How is that even possible?

Maybe we should stop encouraging people to buy trendy things then? Maybe being wasteful should stop being cool. Because it’s not cool. It’s not cool at all.

Maybe if we drink from paper straws it will save the rain.

تعرفون المطر الأسيدي، والآن المطر البلاستكي

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So what happened to acid rain? How did that get cured? It was supposed to end the world like years ago. Just use the same method of clean up.

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Gee must have came from cali and all the libbys

OMG

TALK ABOUT THE RACE OF PHILLY SHOOTER JUST LIKE YOU DID WITH THE MEXICO SHOOTING

Man, you guys had to be sooooooo disappointed that the guy shooting cops in philly wasn’t white. So I guess that means random stories about plastic until you find something you can bend to your narrative. fakenews 2ashallnotbeinfringed

OK, FUCK SCIENCE

i just want to say one word

IF it's in fiber form, we're likely breathing it, as well. Which means fibers may imbed in our lungs and voila, just like asbestos, have a little cancer as a side dish.

Holy shit

Horrifying!

Don Lemon would prefer it to be raining men.

Lovely...

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