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ACS journals report: microplastics in clouds could affect weather, upcycled cardboard foam packaging, and advances in silver nanoparticle research
Additives for Polymers
2023
Summary
This brief news report summarizes an American Chemical Society finding that microplastics detected in clouds could potentially influence weather patterns by acting as nuclei for ice and water droplet formation. If confirmed, this atmospheric pathway would represent a new mechanism by which microplastics affect the Earth's climate system.
On November 15, 2023, The American Chemical Society reports that microplastics in clouds could affect the weather.