太平洋ゴミベルト
Pelagic plastics and other seaborne persistent synthetic debris — M R Gregory and P G Ryan [Marine Debris: Sources, Impacts, Solutions; pages 49-66 — J M Coe and D B Rogers (1997)]
A comparison of plastic and plankton in the North Pacific Central Gyre — Charles J Moore, Shelly L Moore, Molly K Leecaster and Stephen B Weisberg
Density of plastic particles found in zooplankton trawls from coastal waters of California to the North Pacific Central Gyre — Charles J Moore, Gwen L Lattin and Ann F Zellers
The quantitative distribution and characteristics of neuston plastic in the North Pacific Ocean, 1984-1988 — R H Day, D G Shaw and S E Ignell (1988)
Thomas Morton, ‘Oh, This is Great, Humans Have Finally Ruined the Ocean’, Vice Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2007), pp. 78-81.
Oliver J. Dameron, Michael Parke, Mark A. Albins and Russell Brainard (April 2007). "Marine debris accumulation in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: An examination of rates and processes", Marine Pollution Bulletin 54 (4), 423-433.
Floating plastic in the Kuroshio Current area, western North Pacific Ocean — Rei Yamashita and Atsushi Tanimura [Marine Pollution Bulletin; volume 54, issue 4, pages 485-488 (2007)]
(PDF)Movement and accumulation of floating marine debris simulated by surface currents derived from satellite data — Masahisa Kubota, Katsumi Takayama and Noriyuki Horii [School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University (2000)]
太平洋ゴミベルトでは、最高レベルではないとしても、高濃度のプラスチック微粒子が海水の上層部に漂っている。結果として、海面におけるプラスチックの光分解の影響を研究するのに適した海域になっている。生分解される破片とは異なり、光分解性プラスチックは、重合体であり続けながら、小片にまで崩壊して小さくなってゆく。そしてその崩壊は分子レベルにまで継続してゆく。