Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world

Source: Science Daily

In the course of five years, citizens who went on sailing cruises to the Arctic surveyed and collected plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analyzed. According to the findings, one third of the plastic debris which still bore imprints or labels allowing an analysis of their origin came from Europe, and much of that number from Germany.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230207081407.htm