Impacts of our Plastic Age

I found them HERE where you can see much more such shocking photos

These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, 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.

Cynthia Vanderlip, manager of the State of Hawaii’s Kure Atoll Wildlife Sanctuary, cut open the dead body of a fledgling Laysan albatross (nicknamed “Shed Bird”) to find more than half a pound of plastic in its stomach.

Plastic lighters, bottle caps, and other plastics that are carelessly tossed often wind up floating on the ocean surface, where they are occasionally consumed by foraging seabirds and other marine creatures. (neversealand)

Τα παραπάνω κείμενα είναι από επισκέπτες και ερευνητές ατολλών του Β. Ειρηνικού, οι οποίοι ανακάλυψαν πολλούς νεκρούς νεοσσούς από άλμπαντρος των οποίων τα στομάχια ήταν γεμάτα απο κάθε λογής κομμάτια πλαστικών, τα οποία τους με έδιναν οι γονείς τους, οι οποίοι τα κατάπιναν μαζί με τα ψάρια. Δεκάδες χιλιάδες ψαροπούλια πεθαίνουν το χρόνο στην περιοχή από κατάποση πλαστικών και άλλων τοξικών απορριμάτων.






Look beneath your lids one morning
see those things you did't quite consume
the world's a can for your fresh garbage