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Plastic pollution: Snowdon research is a 'wake-up call'By Matt LloydBBC News 1 March 2020 Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionThe lake is said to have once contained King Arthur's sword Excalibur - but now harbours plasticThe discovery of microplastic pollution near the top of the highest mountain in England and Wales is a "scary wake-up call", environmentalists have said.Traces of plastic have been found in samples collected from Llyn Glaslyn - a remote lake near the summit of Snowdon.The tiny particles are "most likely" to have been deposited by rain, wetland science expert Dr Christian Dunn said.A teacher who gathered the samples will now visit all the UK's 15 national parks to learn more.Activist Laura Sanderson swam 16 miles (26km) from the source of River Glaslyn - 2,000ft (610m) above sea level - to the sea, last April, collecting water samples along the way. Results showed an average of three pieces of microplastic per litre from the lake m…