https://www.theatlantic.com/science...st-ocean-trenches-animals-eat-plastic/583657/
Basically, this researcher has been studying amphipods in some of the deepest parts of the ocean...and hes finding that 72% of all life studied in all 6 trenches have plastic inside of them.
This one is fun:
lan Jamieson remembers seeing it for the first time: a small, black fiber floating in a tube of liquid. It resembled a hair, but when Jamieson examined it under a microscope, he realized that the fiber was clearly synthetic—a piece of plastic. And worryingly, his student Lauren Brooks had pulled it from the gut of a small crustacean living in one of the deepest parts of the ocean.
The world produces an estimated 10 tons of plastic a second, and between 5 million and 14 million tons sweep into the oceans every year. Some of that debris washes up on beaches, even on the world’s most isolated islands. About 5 trillion pieces currently float in surface waters, mostly in the form of tiny, easy-to-swallow fragments that have ended up in the gut of albatrosses, sea turtles, plankton, fish, and whales. But those pieces also sink, snowing into the deep sea and upon the amphipods that live there.
Basically, this researcher has been studying amphipods in some of the deepest parts of the ocean...and hes finding that 72% of all life studied in all 6 trenches have plastic inside of them.
This one is fun:
In the 6.8-mile-deep Mariana Trench, the lowest point in any ocean, all of the specimens had plastic in their gut.
