Beachapedia

Factoid/2017/05/24

From Beachapedia

< Beachapedia:Factoid‎ | 2017‎ | 05


There are 37 million pieces of plastic debris on a remote South Pacific island

"More than 37 million pieces of plastic debris have accumulated on Henderson Island, thousands of miles from the nearest city. It's the highest density of debris reported anywhere in the world. Research was published n the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." - excerpts from article at npr.org.

Factoid has been Emailed/Tweeted: No


Coastal Factoids Archive Coastal Factoids on Twitter Coastal Factoids RSS Feed