One man’s trash is an ocean creature’s home.

Marine animals that typically live in the coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean are multiplying on the debris of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a new study revealed.

The report published on Monday in “Nature Ecology and Evolution” said that scientists found living species on 70.5% of 105 plastic items taken from the patch between Nov. 2018 and Jan. 2019.

The group, spearheaded by Linsey E. Haram of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, identified 484 separate marine organisms on the samples, including crustaceans, mollusks, sea anemones, and worms.

About 80% of the species had coastal origins, the study said.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, meanwhile, occupies more than 600,000 square miles in the open ocean between Hawaii and California, USA Today reported.

But despite the bizarre conditions, the study found that marine life is thriving and reproducing on the trash heap.

“It appears that coastal species persist now in the open ocean as a substantial component of a ‘neopelagic’ community [a new type of oceanic ecological community] sustained by the vast and expanding sea of plastic debris,” the authors wrote.

Sabine Rech, a marine biologist with the Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile, told NPR that she was “surprised” by the group’s findings.

“Beyond the surprise, I think the implications could be huge,” she said of the discovery.

“With the latest research, we see that it’s just something that is normal now, that is happening all the time. Coastal species are traveling on a regular basis, all the time, away from their habitat.”

But Rech warned that the species migration could lead to them becoming invasive outside their regular climates.

“It’s a bit scary,” she said.