Microplastic description Alta

All equipment and microplastic water were prepared by Eurofins in Bergen/Norway and shipped to Alta/ Norway.
The sampling started Thursday 8th of August at 2 PM and was completed Thursday 15th of August at 2 PM.

The weather information of Alta city center is given below.

Data collected from https://www.yr.no/ for Alta

The samples were checked every day except for the Saturday and Sunday. It was checked that all samples where undisturbed by the wind and the funnel rinsed with water down into the sample.
At the end of the sampling the funnels were rinsed one last time, and the bottles closed with aluminum foil between the cork and the bottle before being returned to Eurofins in Bergen for testing.

Sampling Surroundings

Eurofins Food & Feed Testing Norway AS, Alta is located on a small boat dock, on a headland outside the center of Alta (opposite a small airport). The entire municipality of Alta have about 21 000 inhabitants.