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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

Read more about the debris collection here and here.