Summary:
- Trash from land may end up as trash in the ocean, sometimes extremely far from land.
- Some of it will eventually wash ashore, possibly far from where it originated.
- About 80% of the trash that ends up in the oceans is plastic.
- This is because a large amount of trash produced since World War II is plastic.
- Plastic trash in the oceans may be ingested by marine organisms, which may then die from starvation.