Pristine Antarctic fjords contain similar levels of microplastics to open oceans near big civilisations
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 09:13
in Earth & Climate
In the middle of the last century, mass-produced, disposable plastic waste started washing up on shorelines, and to be found in the middle of the oceans. This has since become an increasingly serious problem, spreading globally to even the most remote places on Earth. Just a few decades later, in the 1970s, scientists found the same problem was occurring at a much less visible, microscopic level, with microplastics.