RARE-1: Estimating macro, micro & nano plastic flows to improve plastic solution strategies for geographically variable locations

Plastic waste is contaminating oceans, waters, and soils at an alarming rate. Microplastics are plastics so small that they may be barely seen by the human eye. Sometimes microplastics are engineered to be tiny, such as when they are used in cosmetic products, and sometimes microplastics are formed from the breakdown of larger, macro plastics.…