A scanning electron microscope reveals diatoms (blue shaded) and bacteria with filamentous appendages aboard rafts of plastic flotsam. (Erik Zettler, Sea Education Association/Tracy Mincer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Linda Amaral-Zettler, Marine Biological Laboratory)

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A scanning electron microscope reveals diatoms (blue shaded) and bacteria with filamentous appendages aboard rafts of plastic flotsam. (Erik Zettler, Sea Education Association/Tracy Mincer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Linda Amaral-Zettler, Marine Biological Laboratory)