Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench
Nearly 7 miles beneath the surface.
By David Grossman
May 15, 2018
Scientists have confirmed that plastic bags litter the very depths of the Earth's oceans inside the Mariana Trench. The findings highlight a polluted region of the ocean often ignored: the very bottom.
Scientists from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and the United Nations were able to determine that "plastics are ubiquitous even at depths >6000 m (over 3.7 miles down) and 92 percent was single-use products." A plastic bag was even found at 10,898 meters (nearly 7 miles down) below the surface inside the Trench.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a20697886/plastic-litters-even-the-very-bottom-of-the-ocean/
