Long Beach-based lab to help kick start California’s testing of microplastics in drinking water
Admiring the beautiful view of the ocean, Shelly Moore looks beyond the surface, having trained her eyes to see the problems hidden below. On her quick walk outside, she notices the glass and plastic bottles peeking from under the ocean along the Long Beach marina. It’s a reminder of the 11 million metric tons of plastic the California Ocean Protection Council estimates enter global oceans every year. Although as the executive director of the Moore Institue for Plastic Pollution, she said the effort to change that starts at home. … That is exactly what she and her team at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research are doing, taking a rather microscopic view of the problem.