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It’s snowing plastic – EurekAlert
McGill researchesr have developed a new technique that is orders of magnitude more sensitive than any of the other current methods used for tracing plastic in the…
The snow may be melting, but it is leaving pollution behind in the form of micro- and nano-plastics according to a McGill study that was recently published in Environmental Pollution. The pollution is largely due to the relatively soluble plastics found in antifreeze products (polyethylene glycols) that can become airborne and picked up by the snow.
The researchers used a new technique that they have developed to analyze snow samples collected in April 2019 in Montreal for both micro- and nano-sized…
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