Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas(phys.org)

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

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-ocean-plastic-life-high-seas.html

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The title sounds hopeful, and nature's resilience is indeed amazing, but the article also explains how the plastic debris enables coastal dwellers to cross oceans and become invasive species at the other end of the earth, while also competing against existing open-ocean rafters.

Basically, plastic is bad news. It's amazing that things have gotten so far and there is still, as far as I know, no sign of the plastic pollution trend reversing.