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.