Plastic lighters washed up on Midway Atoll Refuge shore

Photo By/Credit

NOAA-CREP/NOAA-CREP

Date Shot/Created
09/11/2023
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Some of the 540 plastic disposable lighters that washed up on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and were collected by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team during a 2016 cleanup of marine debris from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Ecosystem
Coastal
Subject tags
Coasts
Human impacts
Human-wildlife conflicts
Marine ecology
Pollution
Wildlife refuges