𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬-𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 Growing awareness of microplastics in the ground and in freshwater highlights the need to tackle an environmental threat generally associated with oceans. On a recent stroll to his local supermarket in the southern German town of Bayreuth, Christian Laforsch decided to count how much plastic trash he passed. "It was 52 pieces on only a normal walk," said Professor Laforsch, an ecologist at the University of Bayreuth. "The problem starts indoors before moving outside. If you open your door and look out onto the street, you will see plastics." https://phys.org/news/2023-01-soil-freshwater-spotlight-plastics-pollution.html