Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

Wow. Microplastics in Antarctica, microplastics in our internal organs.

And we keep buying water bottles. I wish they'd bring back glass bottles with deposits on them. I made a nice bit of coin when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s collecting those bottles and taking them back to stores.

*sigh*

This latest discovery comes from Latvia, where they were dredging up sediment samples from a lake for study.

One comment from Slashdot had some interesting takes:
Other possibilities:
1. Samples were contaminated.
2. Microplastics are not really plastics
3. Microplastics have always existed and occur naturally
4. Method of detection of microplastics is flawed
5. Microplastics didn't really appear in the samples, but the researchers have an agenda
6. Story was misreported
7. Microplastics come from something other than post-1950s life on earth
8. Researchers are funded by a group that wants microplastics to show up everywhere, even on Mars and the Moon.
9. Story was mistranslated.
10. Microplastics are really midi-chlorians but don't tell anyone.

Or microplastics are supermigratory. Let's see if they appear in drilled core samples.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/microplastics-sediment-layers

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/02/23/2343252/microplastics-found-in-sediment-layers-untouched-by-modern-humans