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Liam Gilliver

Meet the Inuit scientist kayaking around Greenland to highlight just how far microplastics travel

Armed with just a kayak and a self-built microplastic filter, Kristian Louis Jensen has spent the last decade paddling through the most “pristine places” on our planet.

During his Master’s degree in environmental protection, the Inuit scientist developed ‘the Plastsaq’. This citizen-science tool allows kayakers and local communities to collect surface water samples containing debris from items such as abandoned bottles and packaging.

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