The amount of plastic waste on a remote Svalbard island shocked a Norwegian Coast Guard cleanup crew
“Some few hundred meters of the shoreline were cleaned. We could have continued for weeks.”
August 2, 2018
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The shore of Kiepert Island south in the Hinlopen Strait east of Spitsbergen is hundreds of kilometers from nearest civilization. A polar bear is seen in distance. You might think this is about as far from anything as it is possible to get.
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