Meanwhile, one day some Japanese fisherman on some rust bucket trawler unknowingly passing over the Mariana Trench is unpacking his lunch on deck when a gust of

Meanwhile, one day some Japanese fisherman on some rust bucket trawler unknowingly passing over the Mariana Trench is unpacking his lunch on deck when a gust of wind comes along and blows it over the side.... The point being that though there's definitely lots of plastic in the oceans, an incident in one place doesn't necessarily make a pattern, and random trash being swept into a place that naturally takes in debris from the surrounding shallower ocean possibly makes for better headline drama than a realistic assessment of anything particular.