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Microplastics are pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters across, shown here in sand washed up on a beach. (Getty) While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, ...

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Once upon a time, before marijuana became legal (or partly legal) in most of the U.S., the only plastic involved with a pot transaction might have been a small baggie and a disposable lighter. (Or, ...