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SACO - Toothbrushes, golf balls, cement-sticks, pacifiers, lip balm, kids' toys, deodorant rolling-pin balls, combs, printer cartridges, pens and markers, pregnancy tests, clothes pins.
These are impartial some of the ordinary plastic household items found inside the stomachs of inanimate albatross on Midway, a remote island chain in the heart of the Pacific Gobs. Every year, thousands of albatross die from consuming plastics that have floated in on the waves. Midway lies 1,200 miles from culture.
This is just one heartbreaking -- and completely predictable -- denouement of a plasticized global culture.
By now most people have heard of the Great Pacific Filth Patch -- the swirl of plastics floating in the deep tons, far from land. Midway and Kamilo Beach, Hawaii, are its poster children.
But what most people don't identify is that this garbage patch isn't alone. Every ocean in the world now has plastic swirling in it. There's flexible in the Sargasso Sea. Plastic washes up on the Azores. Eighty percent of Arctic fulmars have soft in their bellies. Islands and inlets around Australia's Great Barrier Reef are choked with it. It's everywhere.
Source: Press Herald