In other words, there s six times more plastic by weight in this area than there is naturally occurring plankton. However, the Central Pacific, being a gyre, it does accumulate. The high concentrations we found are likely to be at their greatest in the center of the Central Pacific Gyre. The alarming thing we found was that practically every place we sampled had these plastic fragments in it. No place was free of this plastic fragment pollution.
Plastic is a transport medium for toxic pollutants.
Plastic Resin Pellets as a Transport Medium for Toxic Chemicals in the Marine Environment Environ. These can be up to one million times more concentrated on the surface of these pellets than they are in the ambient sea water, based on this latest research. Charles Moore Algalita Marine Research Foundation 345 Bay Shore Ave.