On August 14th of this year, German scientists discovered microscopic plastic particles existing in the snow and air of the Arctic - one of the most remote places on the planet. Their discoveries concluded that microplastics have the ability to travel through the atmosphere from extremely developed countries like the US and China, that mass produce many plastic products. Microplastics are also detected in the ocean as well from an influx in pollution over the past 60 years( see graph ). These scientists additonally took samples from the european alps and found microplastics in the snow that was once pure. Microplastics were also found in France, Iran, and China in this study. "While we did expect to find microplastics, the enormous concentrations surprised us," said Melanie Bergmann, a researcher at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. These researchers have demonstrated how urgent this issue really is to the planet. Plastic is a man made materia
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