Researchers find blue jeans microfibre footprint in Arctic

Researchers have minuscule fibres from blue denim jeans in the remote Arctic, according to a new study published in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) ‘Environmental Science & Technology Letters’. Indigo denim accounted for 20 per cent of all microfibres in sediments from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, a region just south of Greenland, the researchers found.