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Some coastal species can live in floating trash rafts

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Some species that normally live in coastal areas are able to live and reproduce on floating rafts of plastic and other trash, meaning that the open seas can suddenly be a place these critters call home.

NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports.

This segment aired on April 18, 2023.

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