A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

There’s the plastic waste we can see—bottles, bags, discarded fishing nets, and all manner of other ... the impact these particles are having on fish, the food chain, and ultimately, us.

Life for larval fish was a crapshoot even before they met our plastic trash. Off Hawaii, a single eight-minute tow of the NOAA team’s net yields a plethora of living organisms and plastic.