Remote islands are good indicators of what's happening with plastic pollution of the ocean and beaches effecting ocean ecology and sea life. Why? Because there aren't people picking it up and putting it in the recycling and trash where it belongs.
EXCERPT: "Our excessive and unrelenting demand for plastics, coupled with ineffective policy and waste management, has resulted in myriad negative effects on marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments, including entanglement and ingestion of debris, and subsequent exposure to plastic-associated chemicals," the report said.
EXCERPT: "Our excessive and unrelenting demand for plastics, coupled with ineffective policy and waste management, has resulted in myriad negative effects on marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments, including entanglement and ingestion of debris, and subsequent exposure to plastic-associated chemicals," the report said.
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