Plastic polluted Arctic islands are dumping ground for Gulf Stream

Beaches in the remote Arctic islands were found to be more polluted than European ones due to plastic carried from much further southBeaches on remote Arctic islands are heavily polluted with plastic, a new expedition has found, demonstrating that the region is the dumping ground for waste carried northwards on the Gulf Stream.The shorelines of islands in the Svalbard archipelago and of Jan Mayen island were found to be littered with much more plastic waste than on European beaches, despite tiny local populations. Continue reading...