Massive occurrence of benthic plastic debris at the abyssal seafloor beneath the Kuroshio Extension, the North West Pacific
R. Nakajima, M. Tsuchiya, A. Yabuki, S. Masuda, T. Kitahashi, Y. Nagano, T. Ikuta, N. Isobe, H. Nakata, H. Ritchie, K. Oguri, S. Osafune, K. Kawamura, M. Suzukawa, T. Yamauchi, , K. Fujikura
The paper quantifies plastic debris on the abyssal seafloor beneath the Kuroshio Extension, finding high densities of single-use plastics, indicating the Northwest Pacific deep-sea basin is a major plastic reservoir.
bioRxiv · Nov 18, 2020Ecology