This was filmed at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and shows the amount of plastic that was found inside of albatross chicks that had died on the island.
Midway Atoll site of the famous naval battle that changed the course of the war in the Pacific is now a USFWS Wildlife Refuge and part of the largest protected area in the US, the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. It is also home to the largest nesting populations of Laysan and Black-footed Albatross. Each year over 400,000 albatross chicks are born on the 1500 acres that make up the three islands at Midway.
The parents of these albatross chicks fly over 2000 miles to feed their young. They feed in an area of the north Pacific that happens to overlap with the "North Pacific Garbage Patch". By feeding in this area, the adults ingest huge amounts of plastic marine debris that accumulates there due to the gyre formed by the ocean currents. Each year at Midway over 5 tons of plastic marine debris is landfilled on the islands, transported back to Midway in the stomach of the adults.
Much of this plastic is first passed or regurgitated to the albatross chicks where it is thought to greatly contribute to the annual mortality rates of the chicks. This video shows examples of the volume and variety of plastic that is present in the carcasses of the dead chicks. It should serve as a warning that we do not truely throw anything "away".