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Wastewater is ‘polluting rivers with microplastic’
While the water company, United Utilities, declined to be interviewed, Jo Harrison, the company’s director of environment said in a statement: “We understand that wastewater will be a contributing factor to microplastics pollution. We are involved in a wider two-year study, beginning this summer… to understand the sources and consequences of microplastics in the environment.” …
Microplastic in Atlantic Ocean ‘could weigh 21 million tonnes’
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The biggest use of plastics is in packaging – where it tends to be used just once before being thrown away There are 12-21 million tonnes of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have found. A study, led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre, scooped through …
High microplastic concentration found on ocean floor
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWhat happens to microplastics in the ocean? Scientists have identified the highest levels of microplastics ever recorded on the seafloor. The contamination was found in sediments pulled from the bottom of the Mediterranean, near Italy. The analysis, led by the University of Manchester, found up to 1.9 …
Why is there microplastic in Arctic snow?
A team of German-Swiss researchers has found that microscopic particles of plastic are falling out of the sky with snow in the Arctic. Researchers collected snow samples from the Svalbard islands using a low-tech method – a dessert spoon and a flask. They found more than 10,000 of them per litre of melted snow. The …
