Tiny bits of plastic are contaminating mussels from the European Arctic to China, a new study has revealed. Mussels in apparently pristine Arctic waters had most plastic of any tested along the Norwegian coast, according to the researchers (stock image)
Mussels in apparently pristine Arctic waters had the most plastic of any tested along the Norwegian coast, according to the researchers.
The worrying discovery is a sign of the global spread of ocean pollution that can end up on people's dinner plates.
A study by researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) found that plastic had been found in mussels in Arctic waters.
Amy Lusher, one of the researchers who worked on the study, said that plastics may be getting swept north by ocean currents and winds from Europe and America, ending up swirling around the Arctic Ocean.
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