Did you know that there's a giant mass of plastic in the Pacific Ocean?
Well, there is, and these albatrosses, who scoop their prey from the surface of the ocean, are known to take plastic instead of squid. Then they take the plastic and feed it to their young, who are in danger of starving to death because their stomachs are so full of plastic junk that they don't have room for food.
Photo by Flickr user angrysunbird.
That, friends, should be all the impetus we need to cut down on our consumption and usage of plastic.
Gooney bird doodled from a photo by Stephanie Batzer.
