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Fish eat bits of plastic because they think they smell good

August 16, 2017 Environment 546 Views

Hundreds of marine species are known to eat plastic – including those that regularly end up on our dinner plates. But why? It now seems that ocean-borne plastic has a smell that marine animals find appealing.  

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