Neighbors With Nets: How Everyday Americans Are Building a National Map of Microplastic Contamination
Across the United States, a growing network of volunteers armed with mason jars, coffee filters, and open-source protocols is doing what federal agencies have struggled to accomplish: systematically documenting microplastic pollution at the community level. Their findings are not only illuminating the scale of an invisible crisis but are beginning to shift the conversations happening in state legislatures and corporate boardrooms alike.