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Plastic Waste Knows No Bounds

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EOS

Publication Date
2017-05-22

Despite the vastness of Earth’s oceans, human plastic pollution overwhelms even remote corners.It’s like the island of misfit toys, only less endearing. Way out in the South Pacific Ocean, more than 5000 kilometers away from any large land mass, tiny, uninhabited Henderson Island carries the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet.

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https://eos.org/articles/plastic-waste-knows-no-bounds