This is Midway Island, located in the Pacific Ocean about 3,200 kilometers from the nearest continent. Even far from human activity, pollution inevitably arrives here and harms local life.
On this remote island, plastic pollution kills thousands of birds every year. With an average lifespan of 22.8 years, albatrosses are one of the only birds that live to die of old age, but the island's baby albatrosses die early. Whenever their young are born, the albatross parents do their best to feed these young, but they are unable to distinguish between the plastic pollutants, and they feed their young the sharp, toxic pieces of plastic as if they were the colorful fish that live in the nearby sea.
For the birds, these items crowd and cut their digestive systems, resulting in an inability to eat and excrete, and eventually dying of dehydration, starvation, and stomach perforation. Therefore, the island is covered with countless carcasses of young birds, some of which have long since decayed, leaving behind bellies full of garbage, and thousands of young birds have died one after another in tragic ways before they could even wait for their first flight out to sea as adults.
On Midway Island, 97% of baby albatrosses have plastic in their stomachs, as do 90% of other species of birds! What happened to the albatross in the photo is just a small part of the damage that is being done to the planet by plastic pollution, and more disasters are coming with it.
And the most effective thing mankind can do right now is to reduce the use of plastic, and the plastic pollution left in the environment could become the worst environmental disaster of the century. We ignore those all the way out of the net of the garbage into the sum of the amount, but also ignored those even if the treatment can not immediately disappear can only wait for the degradation of the garbage, ignored those landfill soil under the can not decay but also in the dissemination of toxic substances in the garbage ...... we just blindfolded their own eyes, only care about their own can be easy to get all the things.
