Almost all of the garbage they found on Henderson Island was made from plastic. The researchers say the density of trash was the highest recorded anywhere in the world, despite Henderson Island’s extreme remoteness. The island is located about halfway between New Zealand and Chile and is recognised as a Unesco world heritage site. They found the trash weighed an estimated 17.6 tonnes and that more than two-thirds of it was buried in shallow sediment on the beaches. Henderson Island is part of the Pitcairn Islands group, a British dependency.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 16, 2017 15:00 UTC