Henderson Island is a remote isle inwards the South Pacific. Nobody lives at that topographic point but, despite existence uninhabited, its beaches are covered inwards rubbish. In fact xix tonnes of trash made upward of 37 i K one thousand form pieces litter this deserted island.
In What Happens to the Plastic nosotros Throw Out National Geographic explains how domestic plastic trash ends upward polluting a remote isle inwards the oculus of the South Pacific. As you lot progress through National Geographic's story a background map of the South Pacific shows the levels of mismanaged municipal plastic waste product produced past times countries on the Pacific Ocean. Much of this plastic waste product eventually ends upward inwards the Pacific. Carry on scrolling as well as the map updates to demonstrate the levels of plastic waste product entering the body of body of water from rivers inwards Asia as well as North, Central & South America.
National Geographic set the Yangtze River every bit the almost polluted river inwards the world. Most of that pollution eventually ends upward inwards the Pacific past times agency of the East Cathay Sea. The background map animates the modeled pathways of marine debris to demonstrate how the plastic from the world's rivers ends upward creating the huge plastic gyres polluting our oceans.
