How large is the plastic island in the Pacific Ocean?
Great Pacific garbage patch
Of the 1.5 million Laysan albatrosses that inhabit Midway Atoll, nearly all are likely to have plastic in their gastrointestinal tract.[53] Approximately one-third of their chicks die, and many of those deaths are from plastic unwittingly fed to them by their parents.[54][55] Twenty tons of plastic debris washes up on Midway every year with five tons ending up in the bellies of albatross chicks.[56] Fish and whales may also mistake the plastic as a food source.[57][58][59][60][61]