'We’ve really used the ocean as a garbage pail.'
"We’ve really used the ocean as a garbage pail."Plastic Floating Objects
And, at this point, it's become such a large problem that we don't even know what we're finding there. "It almost looks like a fiberglass or plastic tank that came out of a fishing vessel," captain Locky MacLean told theThe team also captured massive webs of fishing nets, which in particular, pose a very real threat to the marine ecosystem.
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