a startling creature in the mariana trench, the deepest part of the ocean.r with. i think it's a sponge. no, it's trash! until the cameras pick up sights like this. we now know it's the pollution you can't see that might be more damaging. carrier bags and other plastic waste break up into millions of tiny fragments. research a few years ago revealed how these plastic particles can be ingested, even by the smallest marine creatures. now a research aquadition in the pacific has made another shocking discovery, when nets were sent all the way down, to the bottom of the mariana trench. back in their labs, at newcastle university, the scientists had an unwelcome surprise. every creature they brought up from the deep had swallowed some plastic waste. being remote is no defence. i think it's quite worrying and it was quite a surprise. i think when we entered this we figured we would probably see something, find something of interest. we didn't expect to find so much of it and there are areas, for example, the bottom of the mariana trench, every single anthropod we