Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean | Nature

"Our model simulations show two to four orders of magnitude overestimation of the measured global median atmospheric MP concentrations...Our results indicate that fewer MP particles are emitted into the atmosphere than previously thought. Land sources dominate the number but not the mass emissions, indicating that MPs emission size distributions should be investigated further."

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Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean - Nature

A global atmospheric microplastics dataset is compiled, and comparison with size-aligned microplastic models in the literature indicate that fewer microplastic particles are emitted into the atmosphere than previously thought.

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