Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

...reflects an ingrained tendency. As the writer Robert Macfarlane has observed, humans are creatures of the air and light, and we have often regarded the spaces beneath our feet with abhorrence, associating them with death, entombment and the unseen and unnameable.

This interest in the deep ocean took on a new urgency in the... began to lay the first submarine telegraph cables across the Atlantic.

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