On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean.
If this scares you (and it should) look up the Great Pacific Gyre. Then, realize that some of that plastic may be yours even if you live on the other side of the globe.
Reblogged from Maschine Design ~ Travels
