The transport and fate of microplastic fibres in the Antarctic

As nations meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, marine and forensic scientists publish new results that reveal the discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice sampled in the Antarctic Weddell Sea.
The Publication: ‘The transport and fate of microplastic fibres in the Antarctic: The role of multiple global processes’. www.frontiersi...