“The age of plastic may really last for ages.” Here’s a look at some of the more far-flung places plastics have appeared on our planet. Allen and his team found a daily average of 365 deposits of microplastics over an area of a square meter. “These results suggest that manmade plastics have contaminated the most remote and deepest places on the planet,” the researchers wrote. German scientists said earlier in 2018 that they found record levels of microplastics in sea ice throughout the Arctic. Many remote islands have been coated by ocean plastics for years, but some are so far from civilization that researchers are perpetually stunned by the levels of pollution.

Source: Huffington Post May 07, 2019 13:30 UTC