His comments
not only illustrates how the deleterious environmental
effects of plastics were entirely overlooked, but also that,
apparently, even the plastics industry failed to predict
the great boom in the production and use of plastics
of the past 30 years. In the marine environment, the
perceived abundance of marine life and the vastness
of the oceans have lead to the dismissal of the proliferation
of plastic debris as a potential hazard (Laist,