An end-of-summer trawl across the floor of the Mediterranean between France
and Corsica has collected over 300 million pieces of rubbish, including plastic
sacks, glass bottles, packaging and other debris. Å®ÉúСÊÓƵs from IFREMER, the
French national institute for marine research in Nantes, gathered the garbage
from as far down as 2550 metres. They say that in some areas it was so thick
that it was endangering sea creatures, which become entangled in it.
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