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In the deepest dive in a manned submersible, US explorer Victor Vescovo spotted and video-recorded a plastic bag and a pile of candy wrappers on the seabed. China Daily reporter Zhang Zhouxiang comments: 乘坐载人潜水器深潜时，美国探险家维克多·维斯科沃（Victor Vescovo）在海床上发现了一个塑料袋和一堆糖纸，他用摄影机录下了这一幕。《中国日报》记者张周祥（Zhang Zhouxiang）评论道： His discovery of plastic waste 11.2 kilometers below sea level in the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest known point in the Earth's oceans, means there is nowhere on this planet plastic waste cannot reach, as it has been found on Mount Qomolangma and in both Arctic and Antarctic waters. 他在太平洋挑战者深渊（地球海洋已知的最深处）深约11200米处发现了塑料垃圾，这意味着地球上的塑料垃圾已无孔不入，更别提珠穆朗玛峰及南北极水域都曾发现了塑料垃圾。 Since the patent for plastics was registered in 1907, 8.3 billion tons of plastic products have already been produced, of which 6.3 billion have been disposed of without processing. 自1907年注册塑料专利以来，人类已生产83亿吨塑料制品，其中63亿吨塑料制品已成为废弃物。 Most of the discarded plastic products end up in the ocean. In the Pacific Ocean, plastic garbage and other waste have already formed an island that's 1.6 million square kilometers in size. That is the size of Mongolia. | 
