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As if the human catastrophe weren’t enough, the tsunami that crossed the Pacific Ocean has swept over most of Midway Atoll, where it has washed away tens of thousands of albatross chicks and buried many petrels in their burrows.

http://birdsredesign.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/tsunami-displaces-thousands-of-albatross-chicks/ (http://birdsredesign.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/tsunami-displaces-thousands-of-albatross-chicks/)

Completely unrelated, but I see Midway and can't help thinking about the Battle of Midway.  I wonder what might be found after almost 70 years.  FYI - one of my favorite battles of WWII - Google it and find out why.

After the Dam burst at Johnstown, PA in 1889 the water, silt, mud, etc. made it's way to the Chesapeake and buried the crabs under too much mud and silt.  They didn't make it.  BAD Harvest.  The crabs rebounded and overfishing is beating them up again, but that is a different story.  Point is, nature will win. 

Here is another link from US Fish and Wildlife on Midway.

http://www.fws.gov/midway/tsunami.html (http://www.fws.gov/midway/tsunami.html)


I am heading over there in a few days to continue work on a feature documentary film about the Albatrosses on Midway Island. We are anxious to see the results of the tsunami. Apparently hundreds of thousands of the baby chicks died, along with many other birds, particularly the Bonin Petrels that nest underground.

Please feel free to follow our journey along at http://www.MidwayJourney.com (http://www.MidwayJourney.com) where we'll post daily updates, photos and films.

Thanks so much.

Wow, good for you Jan. I'll definitely follow your journeys. Thanks and good luck. Poor birds!  :(

I saw a post on Birdchick  (http://www.birdchick.com/wp/2011/03/the-tsunami-and-nesting-seabirds/)yesterday with links to a blog Pete at Midway (http://peteatmidway.blogspot.com/2011/03/pictures-tonight-captions-when-i-wake.html)...

They were able to save some birds...

Good luck, Jan.  I look forward to following your story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ri0RAsctYo#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ri0RAsctYo#ws) This is so very sad....Do NOT throw your bottle caps out. Please find someone who can recycle them, if you can't, send them to me. I know someone who does!  So terrible. Thanks Jan for the blog!

 :scaredblue: Once again HUMANS the cause of death!  :crying:

Yup and to think of all the millions of bottled water we drink. The caps usually go in the trash. Just save them, even if you can't find anyone to take them. Put them in a box or bag until you find someone who will take them. I was guilty too a while back until I found a place that takes the caps. It will never stop but we can control our own!

As I learned more about this plastic pollution issue over the past couple of years through the involvement in this project, I've learned that plastic is actually not even recyclable. It is a big myth and lie.  Due to the low melting point, a plastic bottle can never be made into a plastic bottle again. That would be re-cycling.  Yes we CAN do that with aluminum and glass.  Plastic is only down-cycled into other products such as carpeting, fleece fabric and plastic lumber.  All which will one day end up in the landfill. 

So really the only solution to this awful tragedy is to REFUSE this material in our daily lives.  The plastic straws, cups, take out containers, plastic bags, beverage bottles....  we can all do without these things.

Here is a great website with more info on this.
http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/learn/common-misconceptions/ (http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/learn/common-misconceptions/)

Thanks so much for all your feedback and support of this project.  We hope to keep the website and Facebook page updated while we are over there. We leave on Sunday morning.

Our goal is to bring awareness of this issue to the world.

Warmest regards,

Jan Vozenilek

http://www.MidwayJourney.com (http://www.MidwayJourney.com)

Thanks for the information, Jan. Good luck on your trip and welcome to the forum.

I know they can't be recycled but we have someone here at the Elementary School who uses them. (Bottle caps). We've had a big turn in on caps!

Found this:

http://www.nwguardian.com/2011/03/10/9709/program-recycles-bottle-caps-at.html (http://www.nwguardian.com/2011/03/10/9709/program-recycles-bottle-caps-at.html)  Very cool!

http://www.recapcompany.com/vacations.html (http://www.recapcompany.com/vacations.html) Maybe even make your own doormat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3DGJGOalo#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3DGJGOalo#ws)

http://www.midwayjourney.com/ (http://www.midwayjourney.com/) Thought I would check up on the blog. Very informative.

 :( Thanks for educating us Donna!  :star:

http://www.youtube.com/PlasticPollution#p/u/5/K8s7uIzmesI (http://www.youtube.com/PlasticPollution#p/u/5/K8s7uIzmesI)No words needed.

 :crying: A very powerful video and song! We CAN make a difference if we try!  :good post:

I don't use plastic bags anymore...don't need em, don't want them. I'm so used to taking the bottle caps off now, I'm obsessed with it. Anything to help save an animal. The garbage that came out of the birds gut was just hideous. It's hard, I know, to NOT throw away something that will eventually end up in the Ocean, in a belly of an animal but we can try. Think before you throw away something your not sure of. Not preaching, just a heads up. (http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj314/dcnwrocks/Green%20Images/recycleclipart1.gif)