This is not good news.
We all know that our plastic consumption is having a hugely damaging effect on environment but the amount ofin our atmosphere is particularly worrying. In fact, the situation has become so grave that scientists say plastic particles are literally falling out of the sky.
A team of German-Swiss scientists made the shocking discovery when they took snow samples from the Svalbard islands, a remote area in the Arctic. The research, published in the journal Science Advances, investigated the levels of microplastics in three different locations across the world. While the levels of microplastics they found in the Arctic were considerably lower than those they found in populated regions, they still discovered a shocking average of 1,760 microplastic particles per litre of snow.
“It was incredible how much microplastic was being deposited,” said Deonie Allen, a researcher at EcoLab in the School of Agricultural and Life Sciences in Toulouse, France to National Geographic. “Microplastic is a new atmospheric pollutant”.Scientists are warning us that we are creating a 'plastic planet'; almost 420 million tons of plastics were produced in 2015, up from just over two million tons in 1950.
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