Plastic Beach

Posted on Dec 13 2009 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
(Originally posted on MidwayJourney) In the Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who was cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity. A beach cleanup on Midway Atoll made us feel just like Sisyphus. There are millions of tons of plastics present in our oceans, and these are constantly fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces which...

Plastic Water, Toxic Fish

Posted on Oct 26 2009 by Manuel Maqueda
In September 2009, during the Midway Journey expedition, Jan Vozenilek captured what to our knowledge is the first footage of fish eating plastic bits floating on the surface of the ocean. Studies conducted by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation have demonstrated that several types of fish are regularly eating pieces of plastic they mistake for food.  At the same time, Japanese scientists (Mato,...