Remote island found buried under plastic

• Autores: Alice Klein
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3126, 2017, pág. 7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A tiny South Pacific island 5000 kilometers from the nearest human occupation has the highest density of washed-up plastic rubbish anywhere in the world. Henderson Island is an uninhabited, 5-kilometer-wide speck of land halfway between Australia and South America. An expedition led by Jennifer Lavers at the University of Tasmania, Australia, found 38 million items of rubbish weighing a total of 18 tonnes spread across its beaches. The island appears to act as a sink for a giant patch of floating garbage held in a nearby circular current, the South Pacific Gyre.