but what his team is discovering is as in hawaii plastic is making its way into keytures in the wild.s finish in the english channel. 500 or so across 10 species, including mackerel and whiting and he found it. in small quantities, one or two particles per finish. >> it's showing that microplastics are quite widespread in the environment. not just in the water column and beaches but actually in the creatures that live in some of those environments. so then the next step really is to take information like that from finish and from other creatures to understand, well, ok, how much plastic, what are the chemicals that might be of concern, what are the concentrations those of chemicals, what are the quantity to plastic and how does that vary from species to species? in order to understand which particular combinations might create the greatest potential for hazard. because that's what our work is trying to establish at the moment. what potential is there for these microplastics to cause harm in the real world. >> we know that the plastic we can see is affecting wildlife in places like haw