Plastic waste covers 88% of the world's oceans. The participants of the round-the-world expedition came to this conclusion. Only the surface condition was analyzed, but there are results of bottom studies by other groups. For 40 years, Italian scientists, together with their Russian colleagues, have been traveling with a trawl in the Mediterranean Sea along the same route. ... The number of dead sea inhabitants thrown ashore was estimated in hundreds. In the ocean, plastic comes mainly from 6 countries: China ... In the ocean there is no direct effect of fire, but the plastic is affected by sunlight. Plastics split into microparticles become an ideal environment for bacteria