More Than 50,000 Pounds of Trash Removed from the Arctic in 2023

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More Than 50,000 Pounds of Trash Removed from the Arctic in 2023

Over 50,000 pounds of trash have been removed from the Arctic in 2023 after a multilateral effort flooded critical northern ecosystems with volunteers. Working during the brief Arctic summer, clean-up operations were carried out in Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Iceland. Nearly 2,000 volunteers were enlisted across the treaty nations of the Arctic Council, an inter-governmental […] The post More Than 50,000 Pounds of Trash Removed from the Arcti…