“Every cell of an albatross is made from the sea. They trust what it gives them. But the current of the central Pacific, swirling between California and China, have been made a soup of cast-off plastic—billions of pieces that never completely decompose. Each year Midway’s albatrosses unwittingly feed five tons of these pieces to their little ones.
After months of plastic-laced meals, the chick slumps, lethargic. The trash in her stomach is stuck, taking up space. She feels full, but she’s starving.”
–Gayle Boss, Wild Hope, p. 81
