by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:

All of the plastic that we have surrounded ourselves with is slowly killing us.  The UN estimates that we produce 430 million tons of plastic each year, and approximately two-thirds of that plastic is only used for a short period of time.  Just think of all the plastic wrappers and containers that you throw away on a regular basis.  All of that plastic ends up somewhere, and it steadily breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces.  Once the pieces get small enough, they become known as “microplastics”, and they have literally saturated our water, our soil, and our air all over the planet.  In fact, scientists have found microplastics wherever they have looked, and that includes some of the remotest locations on the entire globe.  That is because even the rain that falls from the sky contains microplastics, and so there is no possible way to escape them.