Plastic pollution is found in all oceans. Now we have photographic evidence showing benthic pollutio

Plastic pollution is found in all oceans. Now we have photographic evidence showing benthic pollution in remote areas such is Arctic.

The accumulation of plastic in the Arctic region is almost certainly not caused by local populations. Marine litter, mayority compound by plastic, it’s carried in from distant regions by currents in the Atlantic Ocean. According to Melanie Bergmann, whom took these pictures, every time finds more litter items on the Arctic seafloor: pieces of a beer bottle, string, glass, fisheries net, a plastic bag and bits of plastic.

Arctic plastic is small, fragmentend, weathered and aged, indicating that it had been traveling the seas for decades, fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces along the way. Detailed image analysis indicate the trend is still on the increase!