The plastic crisis sinks to a new low in the deep sea

Mongabay
Jun 28, 2018, 5:00 am289 pts
Plastic water bottles and snack-food packaging have made their way to the deepest parts of the world’s oceans, drifting to depths of nearly 11,000 meters (36,100 feet), according to a new study published in Marine Policy. Sanae Chiba, the study’s lead author and a scientist at the Japan Agency for…

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