No escaping ocean plastic: 37 million bits of litter on one of world's remotest islands

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 09:02 in Earth & Climate

The beaches of one of the world's most remote islands have been found to be polluted with the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet, a new study shows. Despite being uninhabited and located more than 5,000 kilometers from the nearest major population center, Henderson Island is littered with an estimated 37.7 million pieces of plastic.

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