Plastic rain

塑料雨

Today, Explained

2025-07-12

27 分钟
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We're revisiting an episode from earlier this year about how we were mostly able to get the acid rain problem under control...only to find ourselves with a plastic rain problem. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. A handful of small plastic pellets, which are used as the raw material for nearly all plastic products, and wash up all over the world. Photo by Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • It's summertime.

  • Happy summertime.

  • And maybe you're not totally happy because of that one war or that other war or your concerns over our trade war or maybe you're worried about some new war.

  • But at least we've got summer and the sun or Where I live in DC, we've got rain and sun.

  • Summer in DC means lots and lots of rain,

  • just like earth shattering thunderstorms that break when the humidity builds and builds and builds and the skies just can't take it anymore.

  • And it turns out there's plastic in that rain?

  • Not like big chunks of plastic.

  • Our old arch nemesis microplastics are in the rain.

  • And earlier this year we explained and today we're going to revisit that explanation.

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