A paradise choked with plastic

She told Daily Mail the thing that shocked her most about Midway Atoll was the juxtaposition between the white sands and turquoise water and birds being choked by plastic.

Angela Sun calls herself an ‘accidental activist’.

But faced with an immeasurable amount of plastic in one of the world’s most remote locations, it’s not hard to see how a visit to the area known as the ‘great Pacific garbage patch’ had an impact on the U.S journalist.

Ms Sun travelled to Midway Atoll – an island in the centre of the Pacific Ocean – to look at the detrimental effects single plastic use is having on the planet.

Her expedition is the focus of the self-produced documentary Plastic Paradise.

She told Daily Mail the thing that shocked her most about Midway Atoll was the juxtaposition between the white sands and turquoise water and birds being choked by plastic.