Oceanic plastic rubbish hosts marine life

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the unlikely home for a range of normally coastal-dwelling species

- Stuart Blackman

Nature abhors a vacuum. So perhaps it’s unsurprising that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a vast mass of floating plastic debris concentrated by ocean currents – is being colonised by animals and plants. But new research reveals they have surprising origins.

Published in the journal Nature Ecology