This plastic bottle jellyfish reminds us that even invertebrates are at risk. "Even sea jellies are found with plastic particles in their translucent bodies," Pozzi says.

   

Activist-artist Shannon McCarthy, creates art from marine debris with a message of awareness of plastic waste and its impact on our oceans.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/environment-and-nature/20151001/living-green-artist-makes-mosaics-from-marine-debris

“The eight million tonnes of plastic that enter the sea every year - through our own doing I might add - is now almost ubiquitous”, the prince told a global conference on safeguarding the world's oceans.

"For all the plastic that we have produced since the 1950s that has ended up in the ocean is still with us in one form or another, so that wherever you swim there are particles of plastic near you and we are very close to reaching the point when whatever wild-caught fish you eat will contain plastic.

"Plastic is indeed now on the menu."

Credit: Steve Parsons/PA 

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch sits near the surface of the ocean. Dense debris can sink centimeters or even several meters beneath the surface, making the vortex’s area nearly impossible to measure.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Photograph by NOAA