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Empa finds plastic in snowfall on Alps

25/01/2022
Empa finds plastic in snowfall on Alps

A study from Swiss research institute Empa suggests nanoplastics can travel over 2,000km through the air and that 43 trillion miniature plastic particles - or 3,000 tonnes of nanoplastics - land in Switzerland every year.

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