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Home, plastic home | Science News for Kids: "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 microbes, research now shows.

Plastic trash in the ocean hosts a diverse world of one-celled organisms, observe Erik Zettler, Tracy Mincer and Linda Amaral-Zettler. The three work at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Marine Biological Laboratory, both in Woods Hole, Mass. They have given a new name to microbes and their plastic homes: the plastisphere (PLAS ti sfeer)."

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