The Arctic Ocean May Soon Have Its Very Own 'Garbage Patch'
By Matt Smith, Seeker | April 20, 2017 07:49am ET
Add the remote North to the spots where the world's plastic trash ends up floating.
A multinational expedition that skimmed the Arctic Ocean in 2013 found plastic "was abundant and widespread" in waters east of Greenland in the Barents Sea, off northern Russia and Scandinavia. In some parts of those waters, they found hundreds of thousands of pieces of plastic per square kilometer of surface, the researchers reported this week.
http://www.livescience.com/58755-garbage-patch-forming-in-arctic-ocean.html
