Tag: micro-plastic contamination

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 08:11 UTC

  The plastic legacy has reached profusely to the bottom of the planet

  

  On 5 June, UN World Environment Day, the campaign motto was “Beat Plastic Pollution”, and with very good reasons, we are surrounded by plastic pollution and a report from BAS indicates that at the bottom of the world, where few humans have ever set foot, an unwelcome visitor has arrived. Antarctica – the vast, frozen wilderness of ice and snow – is no longer untouched by humanity’s most persistent pollutant: plastic.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Falkland Islands Wool Company attended the 88th Congress of the International Wool Textiles Organisation

  

  Vikki Berntsen and Farrah Peck of The Falkland Islands Wool Company attended the 88th Congress of the International Wool Textiles Organisation (IWTO) last month, along with Adam Dawes of the Department of Agriculture, and Robert Hall of Falkland Wool Growers.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 07:31 UTC

  Falklands' waters micro-plastics pollution comparable to areas of UK

  

  The first study to investigate micro-plastics around Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands – two of the most remote locations in the South Atlantic Ocean – has found levels of contamination comparable with the waters around the UK.

• Saturday, April 22nd 2017 - 13:00 UTC

  Cruise to assess micro-plastic pollution in Spain's northern waters and sediments

  

  Researchers from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) have started an oceanographic survey to assess micro-plastic contamination in both water and sediments off the coast of Galicia and Cantabria.