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… and it is unclear how many wastewater treatment plants can actually filter them out. Some studies suggest that up to 90 percent of microplastics can be filtered in certain types of … However, if the wastewater treatment plant is unable to capture microplastics they are eventually washed out to the ocean. How we got to this stage—the WEF describes plastics as … be the answer to that age-old philosophical question, “Why are we here?” If that’s the case, then this mundane raison d’etre inherently gives rise to a second, less mundane one: …