Record Amount of Plastic Pollution Found Trapped in Arctic Sea Ice

Yale e360
Apr 25, 2018, 1:35 pm147 pts
Scientists have found a record amount of microplastic particles trapped in Arctic sea ice — as much as 12,000 pieces per liter of ice. The level of plastic pollution, measured in core samples taken at five different regions in the Arctic in 2014 and 2015, measured three times higher than previous studies.…

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