From drywall to metal: Study finds gulls tough enough for landfill diet
OTTAWA — 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, who is the lead author of a recently published paper.
“I have photos and you can actually read the cheese wrapper I found in the bird and glass that you could read. Just big chunks, really.”