Happy World Environment Day kids.
A black-footed albatross chick with plastics in its stomach lies dead on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on November 2, 2014. The remote atoll is a delicate sanctuary for millions of seabirds. Midway sits amid a collection of human-made debris called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the paths of Midway, there are piles of feathers with rings of plastic in the middle—remnants of birds that died with the plastic in their guts. Each year the agency removes about 20 tons of plastic and debris that wash ashore from surrounding waters.
Garbage covers the beach days after an extended storm hit the shoreline of Zouq Mosbeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, on January 22, 2018. Environmentalists say the winter storm pushed a wave of trash onto Lebanese shores, stirring outrage over a waste-management crisis that has choked the country since 2015
A bicycle is parked next to plastics and other garbage on a beach in Neo Faliro, southern Athens, Greece, on January 17, 2018. Greece has the European Union’s longest coastline, poor waste management, and a heavy consumption of single-use plastic that is littering the country’s seabed. To fight the problems, volunteer divers are working as underwater garbage collectors to clear debris—mostly plastic—that is littering the sea floor.
more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2...nt-day-2018-is-beat-plastic-pollution/562082/