99 Percent of Seabird Species Could Be Tainted With Plastic by 2050, Science Says | Audubon

We’ve heard it before: stories of shearwaters with toothbrushes in their bellies; petrels with synthetic pellets in their guts. Thanks to photographer Chris Jordan, we’ve seen it before, too. His images from Midway Atoll show bottle caps, children’s toys, and shards of plastic spilling out of dead baby albatrosses (birds mistake the trinkets for food).