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I visited the beautiful pacific recently and even on very remote tropical islands there were plastic bottles in the water and on the beaches everywhere. Very s
by hoodoof 10y ago
I visited the beautiful pacific recently and even on very remote tropical islands there were plastic bottles in the water and on the beaches everywhere.
Very sad - hopefully one day the world will come to see plastic as the scourge that it is.
- ashark 10y agoI read a whole lot of posts by a Russian world traveling photo-blogger a few years back, and one of a few consistent themes was that most remote Pacific islands kinda look like garbage dumps, if anyone lives on them. Others included: former French colonies are usually way worse off than former British colonies, and that the US (and Australia a bit, though less) has like 100x as many posted instructions and regulations as anywhere else.
- dboreham 10y agoSee under: Lawyers
- emodendroket 10y ago> US (and Australia a bit, though less) has like 100x as many posted instructions and regulations as anywhere else. I'm guessing he did not visit Japan then.
- seszett 10y agoIt doesn't take anyone living on islands for them to be littered with trash. I stayed on Kerguelen island for about a year (in the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific) and the North coast is just completely full of plastic trash brought there by the sea. Plastic bottles, tanks, buoys, ropes. The West coast is a bit too remote to survey, but it's probably even worse. So, people living on islands create trash obviously, but the uninhabited ones might not be better.