Water Samples Reveal Microplastics In Two Grand Teton Lakes

May 6, 2025

The prominence of plastic pollution and microplastics in our oceans is widely recognized. It’s a phenomenon scientists have been researching exhaustively for years and alerting us to the potential unintended impacts that our reliance on plastics has on the entire food chain. We’re at the end of the line as plastic breaks down into tiny, microscopic bits, and we are inevitably ingesting it all ourselves through various sources.

One aspect of this that hasn’t been studied as heavily as the presence of microplastics in our ocean is the presence of microplastics in lakes. The Inertia