Why seabirds love to gobble plastic floating in the ocean

Imagine you’re passing a fast-food restaurant and you smell hamburger on the grill. You’re hungry, so you pull in and eat one … and the foam box it comes in.
That’s apparently what’s happening with some oceanic birds. And now scientists think they know why.
The fact that sea animals and birds eat floating plastic has long puzzled biologists. Their best guess was that it looks like food. But the new evidence suggests that for a lot of birds, plastic actually smells