Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas

Edgewater MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2021

Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean-by colonizing plastic pollution. A new commentary published Dec. 2 in Nature Communications reports coastal species growing on trash hundreds of miles out to sea in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, more commonly known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." "The issues of plastic go beyond just ingestion and enta