A deadly diet - Laysan albatross & plastics
- added August 08, 2008
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Monterey Bay Aquarium, 06.01.08
Of 500,000 albatross chicks born each year on Midway Atoll, about 200,000 die of starvation. The awful truth—in their searches of the ocean surface, albatrosses mistake plastic trash for food and end up feeding Lego blocks, clothespins, plastic bag bits and a host of other man-made junk to their chicks. As a result, the large amount of plastic crowding the chick’s stomach leaves little room for food and liquid. The amount of plastic floating in our oceans has grown dramatically over the last fifty years. Anthony L. Andrady, a polymer chemist at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina says that plastic takes decades to break down on land, but even longer at sea because the water keeps the plastic cool and algae blocks ultraviolet rays. “Every little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 50 years that made it into the ocean is still out there somewhere.”
Of 500,000 albatross chicks born each year on Midway Atoll, about 200,000 die of starvation. The awful truth—in their searches of the ocean surface, albatrosses mistake plastic trash for food and end up feeding Lego blocks, clothespins, plastic bag bits and a host of other man-made junk to their chicks. As a result, the large amount of plastic crowding the chick’s stomach leaves little room for food and liquid. The amount of plastic floating in our oceans has grown dramatically over the last fifty years. Anthony L. Andrady, a polymer chemist at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina says that plastic takes decades to break down on land, but even longer at sea because the water keeps the plastic cool and algae blocks ultraviolet rays. “Every little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 50 years that made it into the ocean is still out there somewhere.”
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- julesrs007
- 4 months ago
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Just keep it in your pants people... lol
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This does annoy me. There's no need to dump even litle plastic bottles easy to take away with you, it's sickhow nobody thinks of tese thing's or being in the wildlffe's possition wiht the pain it causes them.
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Can someone please explain to me why we have lego blocks and plastic bags in the ocean?
Of course given what the agribusiness puts in our food supply maybe I am beginning to understand.
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- MeganMcKenzie
- 4 months ago
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Maybe we all should have to subsit on this diet for a week and see how we like it
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