A recent study on plastic pollution has shown that even Mount Everest is not spared by plastic! Plastic was found in the deepest ocean, in the air, in Arctic ice and in our own stomachs. This study reveals that snow on Mt. Everest has tiny shreds and threads of plastic in it.
The use of plastic has shot up from around 5 million metric tons in the 1950s to more than 330 million metric tons in 2020. Broken-down bits of plastic bags, bottles, and the other consumer plastics smaller than five millimetres are called microplastics and cause great harm to the environment. Each year, hundreds of people attempt to summit the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. They leave piles of trash behind. The majority of the microplastics found on Everest were polyester fibres from the climbers’ equipment and clothes.
What are we doing to do to reduce the plastics from our environment?
