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Wednesday 20 February 2013

That most dashing of sea birds the gannet - plastic waste in the Pacific

The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our times.


Here's an infographic from Jessica Wallace along similar lines 


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