Thank you.
I'm going to stay with Dr. Allen.
I know you've studied the issue of plastic pollution around the world—in Asia, etc. We've all heard of the big blobs of plastic pollution in jars out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I know from going to island nations such as Samoa that they're facing a huge problem of tonnes of plastic washing up on their shores.
I'm a bird biologist. A friend of mine was studying the albatross nesting on the Midway Islands, out literally in the middle of the Pacific. Those albatross feed on the coasts of British Columbia, bringing food from there to their young at Midway. He had sights of a young albatross coughing up a toothbrush.
I just wonder if you could comment on the worldwide scale of this problem and on how all that pollution from around the world, all that plastic, affects us here in Canada and everywhere.