u/Complex-Pianist-5582

I live in Northern Ireland, and for the last 4 and a half years I've been collecting micro plastics (and any other rubbish in the sea).

The thing is, all these plastics, that are always in the water where I live, would any of them end up in the oceans. Or do they all stay in the locals seas.

I want to know that I'm stopping plastic rubbish from ending up in the oceans, but it honestly seems like all the micro plastics I pick up, would of just stayed in close seas to the land. So I'm not actually getting rid of any rubbish that would end up away from land and into the bigger seas