in the jar and this is sand from a beautiful beach that from a distance looks pristine it's called rangar toto it's an island off the coast of auckland new zealand and this is full of these little tiny particles and if you look at one of these what happens potentially with a nerd all which are these little tiny balls holding one up i don't even know if you can. zoom in there but there are. but they're very very small and they look like fish eggs or they look like fish so what ends up happening is these can accumulate up to a million times the p.o.p. is the persistent organic pollutants that washed into the ocean on the surface so you can there's a professor in japan named dr kata who's studying these and what he's found is it can have. pharmaceuticals attach to the surface it can have. any kinds of pesticides everything that runs off into the ocean will collect on us or horses when we eat seafood of course we're in just in these talks and that the cumulated through the plastic ingestion of these creatures i wanted to get to obviously the most obvious question of all why can't we clean it