Too much plastic?

[Sea Save Foundation]

Henderson Island, in the South Pacific, is thousands of miles away from any human communities, yet thirty-seven million pieces of plastic were found along its shores. “It's the highest density of debris reported anywhere in the world, scientists say.” It is estimated that the plastic trash weighs seventeen tons. Plastic pollution is a major issue facing our oceans today and finding so much of it on a remote island proves it.

Read more here (number 4)

Do you think we are doing enough to reduce the amount of plastic waste in our oceans? What do you think should be our priority in curtailing plastic waste?

 

[chrisch]

Most of it comes from shipping. The principle way to keep it out the sea is to stop ships dumping waste. How you do that given the sorry state of global shipping and flags of convenience is hard to say.

 

[NYCNaiad]

So sad! We aren't doing enough. I think there needs to be more education & more bans on plastic.

Most of it comes from shipping.

FYI: Quite a number of the articles I read indicated that it is believed that land-based sources were more of an issue than ships though ships were of course a problem as well.