FOR KIDS: Home, plastic home

Some ocean life is finding a home in floating piles of plastic trash

By Janet Raloff

Web edition: July 16, 2013

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Plastic oases

A mix of sea microbes living on a tiny piece of plastic from the North Atlantic.

Credit: Zettler et al./ Amer. Chem. Soc./ Env. Sci. & Tech.

We live in an increasingly plastic world. Much of this plastic does not easily degrade and so survives to pollute the environment. But a great deal of trashed plastic will break into tinier bits that eventually wash into the ocean. There this debris has begun creating new homes for enormous numbers of microbes, research now shows.

Visit the new Science News for Kids website and read the full story: Home, plastic home.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351679/title/FOR_KIDS_Home_plastic_home

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