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If You Could Only Sea

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OUR OCEANS are polluted with plastics of all kinds and sizes. It is a global problem with no real agreed on solution.

Only 9% of all the plastic waste ever created has been recycled. From its contributions to global heating and pollution, to the chemicals and microplastics that migrate into our bodies, the food chain and the environment, the overwhelming cost of this cheap material is becoming more apparent. We have technology that can see microplastic particles that don’t breakdown, and find their way into almost everything including the snow packs in our mountain regions. We have specialized equipment for the detection of nanoplastics – plastics that have broken down to sizes below a thousandth of a millimeter, smaller than a single cell. Laboratory tests show that unlike microplastics, nanoplastics are small enough to accumulate within the bloodstreams and cell membranes of a range of organisms.

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Conversations of Consequence

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Ruth Westreich, “If You Could Only Sea,” Conversations of Consequence by Ruth Westreich, accessed June 13, 2025, https://biblio.csusm.edu/context-library-series/westreich/document/213.