An Update on Midway Atoll
Satellite Image of Midway Atoll, 2008. Photo Credit: Wikipedia
I wrote about Midway Atoll a while ago. Midway Atoll is where Wisdom lives.
Recently, the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program calculated all of the debris they collected over the course of a week. Here's what they found:
6651 plastic fragments
1468 beverage bottles
872 other bottles or containers
4457 bottle caps
540 cigarette lighters
1654 small nets/fragments
128 medium nets (larger than a pelican safety kit)
61 large nets (larger than an action packer)
1855 plastic buoys
813 foam buoys
486 toothbrushes and personal care products
207 plastic toys
1986 oyster spacers
270 eel cone traps
570 rubber slippers and shoes
82 fisheries baskets
68 umbrella handles
54 pens/markers
62 hangers
