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Good Reason To Limit Use of Plastic

Posted by Cheryl Miller on Oct 22nd, 2009 | Leave a comment home title

This story is so strange I even went to Snopes.com to see if it was an urband legend. I wish it was. Plastic is one of the least biodegradable products on the planet. Can we use less? Leave your comments at the link below the post.

Midway
Message from the Gyre

These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

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