A remote Pacific Island is covered in plastic; scientists are determined to clean it up

No-one has lived on Henderson Island since the 15th century, but it has the highest density of plastic debris recorded anywhere in the world. Every day 3500 pieces of plastic trash wash up on its pink-tinged coral shores, bobbing on the ocean before they are swept up by the South Pacific Gyre, a powerful rotating current. Click on the link below to read the full article.