Now, a British team of researchers say they have discovered cases of plastic ingestion among tiny shrimp in six of the world’s deepest ocean trenches. In the Mariana Trench east of the Philippines, the deepest depression on Earth, 100 percent of the animals studied had plastic fibers in their digestive tracts. 6-11 km underwaterJamieson and his team normally spend their time looking for new species in the depths of the ocean. The team was astonished by just how widespread the plastic contamination at extreme depths proved to be. It’s everywhere.”Of the 90 individual creatures the team dissected, 65, or over 72 percent, contained at least one plastic microparticle.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 27, 2019 21:22 UTC