Geologists discovered the first rains of plastic in USA

In 1855, the English Metallurgist and inventor Alexander Parkes got the first plastic, which gave the name to parkesine (celluloid).

52 years later, the Belgian scientist Leo Baekeland, experimenting with formaldehyde and phenol in his home laboratory invented synthetic plastic, called bakelite. Emerged after Bakelite Corporation had rightly predicted that the new material with unlimited application possibilities will change the world.

So, in the years 1920-1930 plastic from chemical laboratories spread around the world, and today its production is so great that it spend 8% of all oil produced. But blinded by the endless possibilities of the new material we did not notice how he was the cause of terrible pollution. According to the latest scientific research on the Earth today are plastic rain, and it's very bad.

The US geological survey found traces of plastic particles in the Rocky mountains. This writes ScienceAlert, citing a study by the us authorities.

Traces of plastic were discovered during the study, samples of rain water for contamination of its nitrogen. It turned out that in 90% of all samples of rain water at eight locations in the Rocky mountains revealed the micro-plastic particles.

Micro-plastic particles have been found not only in the areas where people live, but also in remote places of the Rocky mountains. For example, on top of a mountain at a height of 3 159 m above sea level.

Mostly rain brought in national Park rocky mountain, which is also included in the study area, synthetic fibers of microfiber.

Previously, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute found micro-plastic particles in the North pole — they fall in uninhabited man region with snow.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»