Sampling Surroundings

Pelkosenniemi is a municipality of Eeastern Lapland in Finland. The population is 916 , which make it the smallest municipality in Lapland in terms of population. It covers an area of 1 881 km² of which 45 km² is water. Pelkosenniemi is surrounded by wild nature and is known of the old-grown forests and extremely high air quality. The sampling location situated in quiet area with the 10 km distance from the center of Pelkosenniemi. The area is in county side with only little traffic. The nearest road, national road 5, is in 65 m from the sampling point.

Pelkosenniemi

All equipment and microplastic water were prepared by Eurofins in Bergen/Norway and shipped to Pelkosenniemi/Finland.
The sampling started Sunday 14th of July at 2 PM and was completed Sunday 21th of July at 2 PM.
The weather information of the closest area is shown below.

Data collected from https://www.timeanddate.com for Pelkosenniemi.

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.