The Grad Student Who Broke Microplastics Research

Madeline Clough, a grad student at the University of Michigan, stumbled upon something that would turn out to be quite embarrassing for the microplastics research field. We've been told that the amount of plastic in a credit card is roughly how much goes into our body every week [1]. But when Madeline was running a routine air sampler on the roof of a chemistry building for her microplastic…