Microplastics are everywhere. These sponges could help capture them
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As billions of tons of plastic waste have accumulated in the environment, microplastics are getting even harder to remove.
Scientists find microplastics everywhere they look: rivers and the ocean, Arctic snow, rain falling on cities and national parks, seafood, bottled water and beer, and even deep inside human lungs. As billions of tons of plastic waste have accumulated in the environment and the fragments keep getting smaller, microplastics are getting even harder to remove. But a new type of sponge could help pull them out of water.