We’re divorced so much from the natural world that it’s almost impossible to account for all of the ways garbage and plastic disrupt the lives of species other than us. The invisible world of the garbage afterlife extends all the way down to the depths of the ocean floor, into the creeks and streams. Water is primarily the place that garbage ends up in, although in truth the forest floor, leaf litter, the verges of roads and many more are home to discarded objects of garbage.
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