Get Ice Fishing Microplastics
PNG. Unlike plastic bags, fishing gear and other macroplastic waste, microplastics are so insidious microplastics are found everywhere in the ocean, floating at the surface, mixed in with the water. Last year, a team of researchers found examples of microplastics in arctic ice floes, further evidence of the spread of the pollutants in the world's oceans.

Researchers warned tuesday of a troubling accumulation of microplastics in sea ice floating in the arctic ocean, a major potential source of water pollution as global warming melts the sheets of frozen.

Microplastics are not a specific kind of plastic, but rather any type of plastic fragment that is less than 5 mm in length according to the u.s. Scientists found microplastics in ice samples taken from the relatively isolated body of water, which they had assumed might be relatively sheltered from drifting plastic pollution. The remaining 3% is present as water in ponds, streams, glaciers, ice caps, and as water. The microplastic polymers in our ice core were larger than those in the arctic, which may indicate the researchers say that the microplastics getting caught up in the formation of sea ice, rather than.