Coastal Blog

Plastics in the Most Remote Pacific is Killing Wildlife

Written by Surfrider Foundation | Oct 3, 2007 7:00:00 AM

National Public Radio‘s All Things Considered recently had a piece about how plastics pollution is affecting wildlife in the waters and on the Midway Atoll, a remote part of the Pacific Ocean. The effects that plastics is having on wildlife is devastating and the pollution problem and has gotten worse since the landmark journey of the Odyssey in a “Sea of Plastic” in 2005.