PolyGone Systems microplastics filter launches in Atlantic City

A water treatment facility in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has become the first in the world to be equipped with a system that removes microplastics from wastewater before it enters the ocean. No law currently requires this, but startup PolyGone Systems built it anyway. Founders Nathaniel Banks and Yidian Liu, both former Princeton students, designed the so-called Polypods: a system...