In recent decades, the topic of marine debris has gained recognition as a significant global ecological and economic problem. As the amount of debris in our oceans grows, the frequency of research and monitoring to understand its sources, concentrations, and impacts also increases. As the frequency of studies grow, the evidence and understanding of the negative effects of marine debris does as well (Rochman et al., 2016). Debris has been documented to have a range of effects from individual organisms with ingestion and entanglement (Gall and Thompson, 2015), up to entire habitats and ecosystems.