{"id":1386,"date":"2010-02-26T16:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2018-04-11T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:35:04","slug":"the-burden-of-plastic-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/the-burden-of-plastic-trash","title":{"rendered":"The Burden of Plastic Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poignant photo essay\u00a0&#8220;<span class=\"image_subtitle\"><em>Message from the Gyre<\/em><\/span><span class=\"image_subtitle\">&#8221; <\/span>by Chris Jordan shows how <strong>plastic trash<\/strong> affects albatross chicks on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midway_Atoll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midway Island<\/a>. <strong>The Gyre<\/strong> is a circular current that helps maintain the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a>.\u00a0Adult birds scoop up small items while feeding and pass them on to their nestlings. One dead chick was found to have 250 grams of plastic in its stomach!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozBE-ZPw18c?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See also&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7967\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com\/ThroughtheGyre_5140bf847cdab_w1500.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7967 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Through-the-Gyre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Through-the-Gyre.jpg 600w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Through-the-Gyre-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Through-the-Gyre-385x250.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click Image to Go to Site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poignant photo essay\u00a0&#8220;Message from the Gyre&#8221; by Chris Jordan shows how plastic trash affects albatross chicks on Midway Island. The Gyre is a circular current that helps maintain the\u00a0Great Pacific Garbage Patch.\u00a0Adult birds scoop up small items while feeding and pass them on to their nestlings. One dead chick was found to have 250 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/the-burden-of-plastic-trash\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Burden of Plastic Trash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,47,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-photography","category-reviews","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}