Plastic waste washing up on beaches increasing threat to turtle populations

Research scientist Jennifer Lavers has spent weeks sifting through the world's waste on two remote sets of islands — and what she has found could have alarming consequences for wildlife. In 2017, many were shocked to learn the shores of uninhabited Henderson Island in the South Pacific Ocean were littered with plastic waste. Not long after, scientists found about 414 million pieces of plastic washed up on the beaches of the Cocos Keeling Islands, off Australia's west coast. 

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