Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. A plastic shard ...

and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it, and in what condition. The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic ...