Have you ever stumbled upon a discarded and worn Happy Meal toy while walking along the beach shore? Has it ever occurred to you that this piece of garbage could be a habitat for different microbes that have created their own community? Over the past 60 years, humans have unconsciously created a new ecosystem in the oceans. This ecosystem is made up of different things: from toys and shoes to orange juice containers and toothpaste tubes. Called the plastisphere, scientists are now concerned about the environmental impact of this new ecosystem not only on marine animals, but also on humans. The plastisphere Approximately 245 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide every year. This figure represents a whopping 70 kilos of plastic thrown away every year for each of the 7.1 billion people on the planet. The sad news is that of these 245 million tons of plastic per year, approximately 4.7 million tons of plastic waste collect in vast oval-shaped floating ocean expanses. Even though we already know that pollution destroys ecosystem, humans have no idea how it can also create its own ecosystem. These billions of tiny pieces of garbage floating in different bodies of water are exactly like an ecosystem, which humans have unknowingly created by using and throwing away too much plastic. As a result, insects and microbes that might have no interest in thriving in the middle of the ocean have suddenly found a new home amid all that drifting plastic. This is now called the "plastisphere". A plastisphere is created when debris and waste are transported into the ocean. This debris will be broken down into fragments which will then be colonized by microscopic organisms. Once trapped, the plastic particles will remain in the middle of the ocean through… through paper… through the guts of the fish. Revealing this information could help other scientists better understand the potential threat these harmful bacteria pose and the role this new ecosystem plays in the larger ocean ecosystem, including its potential to change the nutrients in the water. detailing this new ecosystem is still in its infancy, it is difficult for people to speculate on the potential effects of the emerging plastisphere on marine ecological environments. Although we are seeing the negative effects of this new ecosystem among larger marine animals, scientists studying this new ecosystem hypothesize that the plastisphere offers new opportunities for smaller organisms to thrive. In any case, further studies are still essential to better understand the life created in a barge full of plastic waste in the ocean.