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Dr Melanie Bergmann led the research. First stage involves a bit of low technology. A dessert spoon and a flask. I think were not treating our planet very thoughtfully. Basically, we produce all these packaging materials, we cover everything in polymer based varnish, we use a lot of rubber which we also find in our aerial samples, snow samples, and dont even think about it what is happening to this in the environment. But few people live here. Where on earth do the pollutants come from 7 we know that most of what we are analysing up there and measuring are long range transported pollution coming from the continent, coming from asia, coming from all over the world. And some of these chemicals have properties that are a threat to the ecosystem for living animals. Scientists have found that air and sea currents drive pollutants north. Last year we broke the news that Arctic Sea Ice had more microplastics than anywhere in the ocean because floating particles get bonded into the ice as it f

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