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A new Arctic Council project aims to trace how plastics travel in the Arctic

A specially made plastic bottle with a GPS transmitter could help us learn more about marine waste in the Arctic.

By Nunatsiaq News September 18, 2019
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Iceland’s minister for the environment and natural resources, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, tossed a yellow-and-white plastic bottle from a coast guard vessel near Iceland last week.

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