1. Tiny sea creatures, called giant larvaceans, live deep in the earth’s oceans inside filter houses which also collects their food. The filter also collects nearby debris such as plastic micro-pellets. In a study by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research center in California, researchers distributed small amounts of these pellets while observing larvacean behavior. Around fifty-percent of the creatures filter houses sucked in the pellets; about fifty-percent of those ingested them, as observed through their transparent bodies. The pellets make their way through the creature’s system and are expelled in their feces which can sink at least 984-feet below sea level. This study helps solve the puzzle as to how these tiny plastic pellets are distributed so deeply and widely.
