Here's the Scariest Article You'll Read This Week

From Science Advances:

"Production, Use, and Fate of All Plastics Ever Made"

The growth of plastics production in the past 65 years has substantially outpaced any other manufactured material. The same properties that make plastics so versatile in innumerable applications—durability and resistance to degradation—make these materials difficult or impossible for nature to assimilate. Thus, without a well-designed and tailor-made management strategy for end-of-life plastics, humans are conducting a singular uncontrolled experiment on a global scale, in which billions of metric tons of material will accumulate across all major terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on the planet.

ETA: for some reason the site won't let me hot-link the article. But if you search for the title, it should come right up.