Scientists have named the dirtiest island in the world

Most of all the plastic utensils and bottles of shampoo.

The uninhabited coral island of Henderson in the South Pacific ocean, recognized as the most polluted on Earth.

This told the researchers in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The island, which is located far away in the ocean experts visit only once every 5-10 years for research purposes. So during your last visit they discovered that the island in total is about 17 tonnes of plastic — approximately 671 fragment of plastic garbage per square meter.

Such contamination of the island is illustrated by its location – the course brings to him the trash from South America or discarded from fishing boats. Actually trash it even more, say scientists — they were only considered those fragments that were larger than 2 mm and were no deeper than 10 cm in sand.

It is noted that most of the island’s beaches of plastic utensils and bottles of shampoo.

The pollution of the cliffs and rocky shorelines, the researchers have not yet studied.

According to scientists, the condition of the island clearly demonstrates the inevitability of contamination with plastic waste.

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