The Arctic Has Become Riddled With Synthetic Clothing Fibres
(World News Science)

The Arctic has become riddled with microplastic. When most people imagine microplastic pollution, they might think of shards of soda bottles, plastic bags, and an assortment of other trash. However, a new study has shown that the majority of microplastic pollution in the Arctic is actually from clothing. Synthetic fibers make up around 92 percent of microplastic pollution found in near-surface seawater samples from across the Arctic Ocean and about 73 percent of those fibers are...