An Ocean Gyre- that has a ring to it doesn't it? A phrase of Melvillian portent if ever there was one. Subtropical Gyres are giant mid-ocean currents caused by heat expansion. Midway Island sits in the middle of the North Pacific - 2000 miles aways from the nearest landmass. Around it swirls a gyre, and in that circles a half century of dumped trash and flotsam- a terrible plastic soup for the Albatross that call Midway home. Chris Jordan is producing a documentary on Midway- and the impact of our throwaway society on a place 2000 miles distant from it. Sobering stuff....
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