The National Geographic (along with many other groups) has been documenting what happens to plastic waste-they estimate for example that 18 billion pounds per annum ends up in the oceans (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/planetorplastic/ ). It is consequently hardly remarkable that serious quantities of this material is now being found in the 'pristine' Antarctic seas (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/06/antarctica-plastic-contamination-reaches-earths-last-wilderness ). Such waste will seriously endanger the organisms adapted to living on and around this icy continent -if climate change doesn't get them first!
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