Filmmaker sounds alarm over ocean of plastic.

Filmmaker sounds alarm over ocean of plastic.
On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with plastic objects their parents have mistaken for food. That surreal sight, says film director Craig Leeson, is one of the many symptoms of a plague afflicting the world's oceans, food chains and human communities: the onslaught of discarded plastic.