Why is there plastic in Arctic snow? - BBC News

A team of German-Swiss researchers has found that microscopic particles of plastic are falling out of the sky with snow in the Arctic. Researchers collected snow samples from the Svalbard islands using a low-tech method - a dessert spoon and a flask. They found more than 10,000 of them per litre of melted snow. The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin has been looking in to what causes it.
 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051
 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/microplastics-found-in-arctic-snow/
 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/scientists-find-microscopic-plastic-particles-in-arctic-snow/
 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/airborne-plastic-is-blowing-all-the-way-to-the-arctic1/