Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The photo that made the plastics crisis personal
In the middle of North America and Asia, Midway Atoll lies about 2,000 km northwest of Hawaii. In such a place middle of nowhere, albatrosses, one of the largest seabirds on Earth inhabit. They feed primarily on squid and small fish which they catch from the water surface and also eat floating animal carcasses. But the stomachs of thousands of dead birds there are full of discarded plastic items like bottle tops and toothbrushes. The poor birds apparently ate them as they thought they were the remains of dead animals or fish. Think of a small puppy that has eaten a few plastic bottle tops. It’s a medical emergency because they won’t be digested or discharged, and stay in the stomach until it dies. And if you see the photos, you’ll be stunned to know how much plastic waste those dead seabirds had eaten. Then, think of fish that also unknowingly eat nearly-invisible microplastic as they breathe. Humans are indeed destructing the environment where other species peacefully live in.
Read the article and see the photos to learn about what plastic waste could do to sea birds.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230531-the-photo-that-changed-the-worlds-response-to-the-plastics-crisis
The photo that made the plastics crisis personal
In the middle of North America and Asia, Midway Atoll lies about 2,000 km northwest of Hawaii. In such a place middle of nowhere, albatrosses, one of the largest seabirds on Earth inhabit. They feed primarily on squid and small fish which they catch from the water surface and also eat floating animal carcasses. But the stomachs of thousands of dead birds there are full of discarded plastic items like bottle tops and toothbrushes. The poor birds apparently ate them as they thought they were the remains of dead animals or fish. Think of a small puppy that has eaten a few plastic bottle tops. It’s a medical emergency because they won’t be digested or discharged, and stay in the stomach until it dies. And if you see the photos, you’ll be stunned to know how much plastic waste those dead seabirds had eaten. Then, think of fish that also unknowingly eat nearly-invisible microplastic as they breathe. Humans are indeed destructing the environment where other species peacefully live in.
Read the article and see the photos to learn about what plastic waste could do to sea birds.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230531-the-photo-that-changed-the-worlds-response-to-the-plastics-crisis
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