The scent of plastic trash makes fish think it's food, new study finds
by By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Aug 21, 2017
2 minutes
If you thought "empty calories" were bad for you, consider this: Plastic is ending up in the bellies of fish and other marine life _ and it may not be an accident. A new study finds that anchovies were actually attracted to some kinds of plastic, mistaking it for a tasty meal.
The findings, described in the Proceedings of the Royal
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