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An estimated 10% of all plastic produced ends up in the ocean. Plastic materials now make up 60%-80% of all marine debris. Plastic accumulates and concentrates in specific zones, called gyres, due to regional convergent current patterns. The growing North Pacific gyre has some of the highest density of marine plastic reported anywhere in the world.
Feb 9, 2015 · This feeding behavior brings over 10 thousand pounds of plastic to Midway every year, according to Anna-Marie Cook, a marine debris expert with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and that’s before factoring in the debris that washes ashore. Getting plastic to Midway is easy, at least for albatrosses.
By Nick Paton Walsh, Ingrid Formanek, Jackson Loo and Mark Phillips. Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale...
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Nov 7, 2019 · In this Oct. 22, 2019, photo, dead seabirds lie on a pier with plastic debris on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Midway is littered with countless bird skeletons that have brightly colored plastic protruding from their now decomposing intestines.
May 1, 2020 · On Midway Atoll, plastic ingestion is a problem that is strikingly visual. Though microplastics are a major source of ocean pollution, seabirds are consuming larger, everyday objects that can be found in most homes and supermarkets.
Nov 7, 2019 · Nature. Plastic Is Killing Seabirds on the Midway Atoll Sanctuary. By The Associated Press. November 07, 2019. At a Glance. Debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is washing up on the...
Sep 2, 2016 · The daily accumulation of large debris on Midway’s shores—almost entirely plastics—threatens the monk seals and sea turtles that haul out on its beaches and forage in the atoll’s shallow waters. With only 1,200 monk seals remaining, the loss of even a single animal can substantially impact the species.
