Microplastics are being shot out into the coastal waters off Texas, polluting the ocean and the ecosystems around them, according to scientists.
Researchers say they are now trying to figure out where exactly the minuscule plastic particles may be heading from the Matagorda Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. The Bay is home to a plastics factory that reportedly agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit in which a judge ruled the company illegally dumped billions of plastic pellets and other pollutants into waterways.
