Figure 4
From: First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch
Areal depth integrated concentrations for plastic debris in the 0–5 m and 5–2000 m water masses. Values on the x-axes represent (a) numerical and (b) mass concentrations of floating plastic debris (500 µm to 5 cm in size) at the ocean surface collected by Manta trawls and corrected for wind-induced mixing in the upper 5 m of water column. Values on the y-axes are the depth-integrated concentrations for the water column below (5–2000 m water depth) as derived by integrating the corresponding power law functions (Fig. 2; Supplementary Table S2) using integration steps of 1 m. The values are provided in Supplementary Table S6. Note that no power law function is available for Station 5.
