Although uninhabited by people, and remote, Komodo island’s beaches are also covered with plastic. Captions and Photo: © SAF — Coastal Care
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Over the course of a six-week expedition aboard a Greenpeace research vessel earlier this year, Borowicz and his fellow scientists collected approximately 3 metric tons of garbage from Antarctic beaches…
Read Full Article, Time (04-09-2020)
Microplastics pollute most remote and uncharted areas of the ocean; Guardian UK (02-12-2018)
Why does the Arctic have more plastic than most places on Earth? National Geographic (10-30-2019)
The Arctic Ocean Is Clogging With Billions of Plastic Bits; The Atlantic (04-20-2017)
Pollution is now as dense in the northernmost ocean as it is in the Atlantic and Pacific.
No escaping ocean plastic: 37 million bits of litter on one of world’s remotest islands; Science Daily (05-15-2017)
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…
Underwater avalanches are trapping microplastics in the deep ocean; PhysOrg (03-25-2020)
Plastic Pollution / When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide, Coastal Care ©-2009.
Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature… — © Claire Le Guern
