For this research, Cozar and his team used 17,000 satellite buoys to track the movement of the plastic floating on the surface of the ocean. "The seafloor is the final destination of the floating plastic … it's the great reservoir of plastic debris," said Cozar. "It's a problem that's going to get worse as the Arctic Ocean becomes more water and less ice," said Obbard. The plastic pollution can have a very real impact on food security, said Provencher. But migratory birds like fulmars, for example, are known to ingest plastic floating in the North Atlantic where they spend their winters.

Source: CBC News April 21, 2017 18:37 UTC