CALIFORNIA WASTELAND What shrinking recycling markets mean for the environment, business and our pocketbooks by
Rachel Becker
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t was more than a year after the seabird died and washed up on a California beach before Jessie Beck prepared to reveal its last meals. Holding its stomach over a laboratory sink, Beck snipped open the slick tissue. With a series of plinks, the stomach contents slumped out onto the metal sieve below.
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A Northern Fulmar is dissected to reveal its stomach contents. The fragments include plastic, styrofoam and cardboard. PHOTOS BY ANNE WERNIKOFF FOR CALMATTERS