© Knud Olsen Egede / Royal Greenland Greenland launches two “Plastic in a Bottle” capsules to track marine plastic pollution November 28, 2025Plastics in the ArcticMonitoringОкеанЗагрязнителиКоролевство ДанияРабочая группа по защите арктической морской среды The GPS-equipped capsules are part of a large-scale project by the PAME Working Group that tracks how plastic pollution travels in the Arctic marine environment Two new “Plastic in a Bottle” capsules are being launched off the coast of Greenland to simulate how marine litter and plastics can travel through the Arctic marine environment. The effort is the latest from the Plastic in a Bottle project by the Arctic Council’s Working Group on the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME). To date, 10 GPS-equipped capsules have been launched. The capsules in Greenland are being launched from two Royal Greenland trawlers, Avatoq and Kaassassuk. One capsule was launched in the northern part of Baffin Bay, and the other from the southern part of Baffin Bay. Children from a local primary school in Nuuk, together with students from the local high school in Sisimiut, participated in the project, sending the capsules on their journey with greeting messages written on the capsules.