The Bottom of The Ocean is Littered With Plastic

[lordsummerisle]

From Popular Mechanics

Scientists have confirmed that plastic bags litter the very depths of the Earth's oceans inside the Mariana Trench. The findings highlight a polluted region of the ocean often ignored: the very bottom.

Scientists from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and the United Nations were able to determine that "plastics are ubiquitous even at depths >6000 m (over 3.7 miles down) and 92 percent was single-use products." Single-use plastic was even found at 10,898 meters (11 miles down) below the surface inside the Trench.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bottom-ocean-littered-plastic-160700655.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Relax- in a few hundred thousand years marine life will evolve to eat that stuff. In a...

million or so it might itself evolve into marine life.

[samnsara]

2. i have been buying bracelets from 4Oceans..

...each bracelet ($20) pays for one pound of ocean clean up. Each month they highlight a different environmental cause with a different color string holding the clear plastic beads.