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Types of marine debris
Types of Marine Debris
Any kind of trash can get into the ocean—from glass bottles to aluminum cans to medical waste. The vast majority of marine debris, however, is plastic.
Plastic products can be very harmful to marine life. For instance, loggerhead sea turtles often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, their favorite food. And many sea animals and birds have become strangled by the plastic rings used to hold six-packs of soda together. Plastics do not biodegrade quickly.
Ironically, some new biodegradable plastics might not break down in oceans at all. These products are designed to break down when they heat up in a landfill or compost pile. Cooler ocean temperatures prevent these products from truly degrading. Instead, like many other types of plastic, they simply break down into tiny particles called microplastics...
-National Geographic
The 5 most common marine plastics found are plastic cigarette butts, food wrappers, plastic beverage bottles, plastic bottle caps, and plastic straws & drink stirrers.
Notice anything in common with those things?
It's a lot of single-use, disposable plastic.