Gulls at landfills are so common that their stomach contents are sometimes used to monitor plastic in the environment.
But plastic, research has found, is just the start.
“It was also aluminum, drywall, wax paper,” said Sahar Seif, an undergraduate at Ottawa’s Carleton University,
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