“Least concern.” Does Wikipedia have an article on that? Indeed, it does. It’s part of the IUCN Red List. Interestingly, the IUCN Red List has a formal study of the endangerment status of humans. It’s pretty interesting to see some of the environmental living parameters of humans lined up with animals. Particularly, humans can’t habitate swamp areas very well.
20181203/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least-concern_species 20181203/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List 20181203/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction 20181203/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction#Defaunation 20181203/https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136584/4313662
Great Pacific garbage patch? Now, this is interesting. Although the plastic garbage patch covers a large area, most of the garbage is not visible to the eye. Most of the contents are microplastics. The original plastics photodegraded from sun exposure, so they therefore slowly broke down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic. Also, note that there is more than one such garbage patch, but one of them is the biggest, of course.
20181203/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
Indeed, if you look at this picture of plastic garbage waste, you can see that most of the contents are indeed some sort of food container of a sort.
20181203/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Litter_on_Singapore%27s_East_Coast_Park.jpg
20181203/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Litter_on_Singapore%27s_East_Coast_Park.jpg