What Goes Around Comes Around

On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with cigarette lighters, toy soldiers and other small plastic objects their parents have mistaken for food.

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“Every piece of plastic ever made since the fifties exists in some shape or form on the planet,” Leeson told AFP.

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[At] least 250 species have ingested or become entangled in plastic in the seas.

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[P]articles of plastic lurk [in the North Pacific] invisibly, in seemingly clear water.

“If you trawl for it with these special nets that they’ve developed, you come back with this glutinous mass — it’s microplastics that are in the water along with the plankton,” he said.

“The problem is that it’s being mistaken for food and being eaten by plankton eaters, who are then eaten by bigger fish, and so it goes on, and it ends up on our dinner tables.”

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And it is not just the plastic itself that enters the food chain, but other man-made substances from sources such as industrial waste that attach themselves to plastics in the water.

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Studies have linked this with health conditions in humans including cancer, diabetes and immune disruption.

  Raw Story

It couldn’t happen to a more deserving lot.