https://www.afinalwarning.com/466617.html (Natural News) An uninhabited island in the South Atlantic Ocean is surprisingly covered in plastic bottles. Scientists are inclined to believe it means ships are dumping plastic litter far from its origin.
Researchers from South Africa and Canada monitored volumes of plastic litter that have drifted to Inaccessible Island. This remote island sits in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean and is no stranger to plastic litter, having been surveyed previously for plastic pollution in the 1980s.
But this time around, the researchers found that single-use plastic bottles were the most common form of debris to wash up along the island’s shores over the last three decades, indicating a fast growth rate compared to other forms of debris. Some 75 percent of the plastic bottles are from Asia, with most made in China.