Shane Gross / Two grey triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) fight over a large piece of plastic floating at the surface among sargassum seaweed (Sargassum natans) in the Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Jellyfish (Catostylus sp.) swimming in a slick of plastic debris. Turtles feed on jellies such as these and this photo shows how easily they can get confused and feed on plastic instead. Indian Ocean...

Tony Wu / Plastic bottles and other rubbish, found on a beach in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Juergen Freund / Moral eels, Urchins, Cuttlefish, Shrimp and other marine life living within a discarded tyre and fishing net under a ships' harbour, Maluku, Indonesia. November.

Seth Patterson / A compilation of items found washed up along a half mile stretch of the high tide line of South Padre Island, Texas. October 2016. Some of the plastic bottles and bags of signs of nip marks from hun...

Laurie Campbell / Discarded plastic rope and commercial fishing netting washed up on shore at Luskentyre, South West Harris, Western Isles / Outer Hebrides, Scotland, May 2016

Claudio Contreras / Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) trapped in fishing net, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, May, Third Place in the third National Contest 'Visions of our nature' organised by Mexico'...

Bence Mate / Black headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) taking off with foot caught in discarded coat hanger, Lake Csaj, Kiskunsagi National Park, Pusztaszer, Hungary. May.

Jabruson / Non biodegradable rubbish in abandoned forest camp. Lokoue, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo, May 2004.

Jeff Rotman / Fishermen clean Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) on deck of fishing trawler, with herring gulls (Larus argentatus) flocking in the background. Stellwagen Banks, New England, United States, North Atlantic O...

Claudio Contreras,Claudio Contreras / Women gathering mollusc eggs for sale at market, Bilang Bilangang Island, Danajon Bank, Central Visayas, Philippines, April 2013

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Crew of the James Archer (Oceana fisheries) pull up a lobster trap during West coast rock lobster (Jasus lalandii) fishing, Saldanha Bay and St. Helena Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.

Juergen Freund / Crate of Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies just arrived by plane from Brisbane after months of care, ready to be returned to the Tolga Bat Hospital for release back to the wild, A...

Michael Pitts / Marine pollution - dead Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) showing plastics in stomach cavity, Midway Atoll Pacific Ocean

David Fleetham / Hard coral beginning to grow over a discarded plastic fork that is encrusted with algae, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.

Ashley Cooper / Plastic waste washed up on the beach, Spurn, Yorkshire, UK. October, 2020.

Ashley Cooper / BBQ rubbish abandoned in Borrans Park, Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. June.

Ashley Cooper / BBQ rubbish abandoned in Borrans Park, Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. June.

Ashley Cooper / BBQ rubbish abandoned in Borrans Park, Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. June.

Ashley Cooper / Marine plastic waste washed ashore, Holy Island, Northumberland, North Sea, UK. May, 2021.

Doug Gimesy / Drowned Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) found entangled in a Bureau of Meteorology radiosonde (i.e. weather balloon). Brighton Beach, Victoria, Australia.

Sergio Hanquet / Pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) calf playing with a plastic bag, Tenerife

Sergio Hanquet / Person walking over plastic and microplastics covering the beach, brought in by the winds and the tides, Canary Islands.

Sergio Hanquet / Person holding plastic and microplastics from the beach, brought in by the winds and the tides, Canary Islands.

Sergio Hanquet / Plastic and microplastics covering the beaches, brought in by the winds and the tides, Canary Islands.

David Fleetham / Sargasum fish / Frogfish (Histrio histrio) floating on discarded polypropylene rope on ocean surface, North Pacific, Hawaii, USA.

Magnus Lundgren / Thorny seahorse (Hippocampus histrix) juvenile riding plastic debris in open ocean. Balayan Bay, Luzon Island, Philippines. Indo Pacific. Vulnerable species.

Magnus Lundgren / Longfin batfish (Platax teira) hiding under trash, old fishnet and plastic waste. Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean.

Magnus Lundgren / Tiger tail seahorse (Hippocampus comes) riding on plastic waste in Balayan Bay from Anilao, the municipality of Mabini, Batangas, the Philippines.

Magnus Lundgren / Brown paper nautilus (Argonauta hians) juvenile, 1.5cm, riding on a piece of plastic waste. Balayan Bay, Luzon, the Philippines.

Magnus Lundgren / Brown paper nautilus (Argonauta hians) juvenile, 1.5cm, riding on a piece of plastic waste. Balayan Bay, Luzon, the Philippines.

Magnus Lundgren / Brown paper nautilus (Argonauta hians) juvenile, 1.5cm, riding on a piece of plastic waste. Balayan Bay, Luzon, the Philippines.

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Plastic waste in the ocean along with Indo-Pacific sergeant (Abudefduf vaigiensis) Green Island, a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, Taiwan

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Plastic waste in the ocean with Indo-Pacific sergeant (Abudefduf vaigiensis) Green Island, a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, Taiwan.

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Wolf fangbelly (Petroscirtes lupus) hiding in plastic waste drifting out in the open sea, just below the surface. This is a species of combtooth blenny often found around coral reefs in the western Pa...

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) group gathering under garbage for protection during the day. LongDong, Taiwan, Pacific Ocean.

Terry Whittaker / Plastic rubbish on bank of River Ikopa, houses in background. Mandroseza, Antananarivo, Madagascar. 2019.

Terry Whittaker / Plastic litter including bottles in gutter. Mandroseza, Antananarivo, Madagascar. 2019.