Post 11 Quote 2

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch1.htm

Quote 2:

"Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses, which roam ­a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting -- and dying from -- plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into contact with parts of the Eastern Garbage Patch, albatrosses give birth to 500,000 chicks every year. Two hundred thousand of them die, many of them by consuming plastic fed to them by their parents, who confuse it for food [source: LA Times]. In total, more than a million birds and marine animals die each year from consuming or becoming caught in plastic and other debris."

Evaluation:

Albatrosses inhabit a wide range of the northern Pacific Ocean, as they fly in toward the ocean surface they are grabbing whatever they can to consume.  During breeding season they are taking their daily catch back to their young.  The birds are not catching fish they are catching trash, such as plastic and other types of trash that they can carried away.  The adults and young are consuming trash on a day to day bases, and they are dying from it.  Birds are not the only life dependent on the ocean to survive are dying from mankind inventions and consumption, turtles and dolphins are included in the list of species who are dying from coming into contact with our oceans dumps.  They did not have to eat the trash, but many of them are swimming through or surfacing for air are coming into contact with the surface debris.