Recently there have been a number of reports and papers on the sheer scale of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans https://www.cmscoms.com/?p=2789 ; recently more work has been published including:

Plastic waste from land to sea – A paper in Science estimating levels in the world oceans

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768.abstract

Dr Lucy Woodhall,  was the lead author of “the Deep Sea is a major sink for microplastic debris” published in Royal Society Open Science on 17 December 2014. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/4/140317

A solution?   There will, no doubt, be many who put forward solutions to this issue – here is one such …. Quite how it will cope with the marine life mixed up with the plastic soup is another matter

http://www.theoceancleanup.com/prezi/