TU Darmstadt researchers discovered that forest soils contain large amounts of microplastics despite being far from direct pollution sources.

CARE for Cape and Islands holds a summit for business and community leaders to stop the rising tide of plastic pollution.

The Cape-wide ban was pushed by Sustainable Practices, which filed citizen petitions in each town, leading to the ban of single-use plastic bottles and other plastic containers.

To make matters worse, this microplastic rain may even be contaminated with "forever chemicals," too. We may have once believed plastic pollution was mainly a problem for landfills and oceans.