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Floating plastic junk, made up of bottles and bags washed out to sea from rivers, or thrown overboard from ships and boats, broken and discarded bits of fishing nets and other gear, right down to tiny bits of plastic broken down by solar radiation but still deadly to any marine creatures that swallow them.

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