It’s a discovery to appall a modern-day Captain Cook. A vast plastic terra incognita, composed of the detritus of our civilisation, has formed an area the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean. And feeding on this submerged stratum of bottle caps and beer-can loops is one of the most beautiful birds in creation
4 / 7 “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. Every year, tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.” He stresses that in taking these photographs, “not a single piece of plastic was moved” Photograph: Chris Jordan (via The Pacific’s plastic shame | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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