Henderson Island Tragedy

[malocchio]

Another reason I gave up landfill razors... Henderson Island is the most remote, most polluted place on Earth

 

[emwolf]

wow!

 

[Hoka Hey]

So much for tropical paradise.

 

[Billski]

The study found hundreds of purple hermit crabs using plastic cosmetics jars and bottle caps for their shells – containers that are sharp, jagged, brittle, and toxic.

Those poor crabs.

 

[BSAGuy]

Interesting story and sad. Looks like if that is a collection point, it would be pretty easy to clean up.

 

[Traveling Man]

Yes, this is sad what we are doing to our marine environment (as well as others).
I made the resolution in Jan. to try to cut down on my plastic usage, and so far, I've been doing fairly well.

 

[StillShaving]

Waste disposal in general and the impact on the environmental is hard to gauge. One news report last week stated that the ocean was becoming polluted with micro-plastics which will be entering the food chain at increasing levels for many decades to come. I tried to find that news story and this came up instead: Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics, which may be saying the same thing but with a less alarming tone about the certainty of its impact.

 

[Traveling Man]

I'll stick with the science and the good old fashion eye test. When I see trash in the water or on land, I know it isn't doing any good, and I know it didn't get there on its own. It's easy to spot a 2-liter plastic bottle in the water. The micro-plastics are the result of some cosmetics as well as larger plastics being broken down by the thrashing they take. We can get the debris we see. The micro-plastics are so small, there is no we to strain them out.