Antarctica Already Polluted With Plastic And Hazardous Chemicals

[Judi Lynn]

9 June 2018, 8:57 am EDT By Athena Yenko Tech Times

A recent Greenpeace expedition has found that microplastics from consumer products and hazardous industrial chemical waste have already penetrated Antarctica, the "world's last wilderness."

With this recent discovery, it could be said that humans already polluted all corners of the Earth's oceans, from the north pole to the south pole.

Trashes Easily Visible

The team behind the expedition said that trashes were easily visible to them. There were discarded fishing buoys, nets, and even tarpaulins drifting between small icebergs. The team, thinking that these were the only type of garbage found in the supposedly pristine region, collected all items they found.

Sadly, the team discovered that the pollution was more than the visible trashes. Instead, ice, water, and even snow samples from the region revealed all forms of known human pollution that could have come from all over the world.

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