Stormwater Drains Revealed as a Microplastic Superhighway Straight to

Stormwater Drains Revealed as a Microplastic Superhighway Straight to

Every time rain falls on a city, it washes an invisible cargo of plastic fragments off rooftops, roads and pavements and into the drains beneath our feet. A new critical review published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment argues that this hidden network of gutters, gullies, manholes and pipes is far more than a passive plumbing system: it behaves as a dynamic, reactive transport machine that collects, stores, resuspends and exports micro…