Millions of tons is approximately plastics can swim in the oceans, as the earth's population uses this material wherever possible. But a new study has shown that 99% of plastic debris in the water missing, and scientists are wondering where he could have gone. 1 version of the researchers of this phenomenon is garbage eats fish. "Plastics have the capacity to enter into large-scale food network across the ocean, " says Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer from the Institute of Western Australia in Crawley. - And we will also be part of this food web". People create almost 300 million plastic per year. A large part of it is finally in landfills. But in the 1970-ies in the course of research of the National Academy of Sciences of Australia revealed that 0,1% of all plastic falls into the ocean together with tributaries, in the process of floods and storms and thanks to ships. Some materials remain trapped in the Arctic ice, some of them are nailed to the shore, and some may even form a Grand waste spots and Islands. But the main waste all the same continues her bathing on oceans and seas. To check how many directly garbage floats in data "spots", scientific workers went to sea on 4 ships of the research project exploring the oceans Malaspina expedition. They were caught plastic with a small grid in all 5 key cycles of ocean currents in 2010 and 2011. Then, using these data, the researchers calculated large-scale pollution of the ocean plastic. It was assumed that the indicators achieved million tons, but the figure was much more modest: 40 thousand tons. Ie 99% of the plastic in the ocean simply could not be found. Taking into account opinion of a Manager of the expedition, a large number of plastic particles can be eaten by marine animals. While plastic floating in the ocean waves and ultraviolet light can split it into smaller and smaller particles. Ultimately, they are small enough that may look as food for fish, "Vesti". Specialists admit that marine animals eat plastic, but to understand the biological results of this process impossible. To plastic can "catch", etc toxic pollutants, such as mercury. When small animals eat this poisonous plastic, poison next may enter the food chain to market types, for example, in the body tuna or swordfish. However, you may find that a small fish die from intestinal infection or vomit poison, thus not affecting those species that eat people. Slides and a large number of other hypotheses to explain the mysterious failure of plastic. For example, there's a possibility that the plastic just goes under the water column seabed under the weight attached to particles, microorganisms or animal waste, or that it eat very small organisms. "The presence of plastics on the seabed is considered to be the worst scenario, - said the ecologist Andres Kozar from the Institute of Cadiz, Spain. - In the oceanic depths accumulation of plastic will cause irreversible changes of this mysterious ecosystems before we will be able to understand it".