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Written by: Magnus Johnson and Melanie Coull, University of Hull

In Hawaii’s outer islands the Laysan albatross feeds material skimmed from the sea surface to its chicks. Although adults can regurgitate ingested plastic, their chicks cannot. Young albatrosses are often found dead with stomachs full of bottle tops, lighters and other plastic debris, having starved to death. But these big, visible impacts may just be the tip of the iceberg.

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