MIDWAY JOURNEY - Plastic Water

Scientists say that plastic now outweighs plankton 6 to 1 in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The lagoon of Midway Atoll is the perfect laboratory to witness all sizes of plastic slowly breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces. A variety of plastic washes up on the beaches daily, but not before some local fish make a meal of it.

Video by: Jan Vozenilek Voiceover: Victoria Sloan Jordan

Music by Christen Lien www.itsnotaviolin.com

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• plastic pollution
• plastic
• pollution
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• garbage
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• Manuel Maqueda
• Victoria Sloan Jordan
• Jan Vozenilek
• Bill Weaver
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• laysan duck
• pacific

[CANNUCK72]

Humans make me shake my head. We are so out of sync with nature - how did it get this way?

[Elphyrafire]

This is sickening- is there anything we can do? Are there any organizations working to help this situation?

[Cavelson]

Midway... Supose to be a peaceful place after war...

[ttw09southbay]

This is a great video! I shot a few scenes of plastic trash in Los Angeles and put them in my video, "Plastic Trash Zombies". I am sure those trash will end up in the middle of the pacific some day. We have to stop buying "throw-away plastic"!!

[MrWhatname]

No wonder cancer rate increases so badly. And you even swallow plastic by drinking your Coke/Orange whatever out of plastic bottles. Worst are the plastic softeners, that make hard plastic elastic, they are washed out and are extremely harmful.

Not to mention the artificial sweeter, like "Aspartam" or "Nutra-sweet" - all sources of phenylalanin - it is a shame.

[Lagolop]

Elphyrafire

We will need new technology to fix this. Groups do go to Midway for the sole purpose of collecting crap that litters the beaches but it is a never ending battle.

[projectdurden]

I love Sushi! God help me!