Remote island beach plastics point to greater waste problem

Remote island beach plastics point to greater waste problem

Channel NewsAsia - World·2019-05-16 21:48

This handout photo released by the University of Tasmania shows debris on a beach on Cocos Islands. (Photo: Silke Struckenbrock/University of Tasmania/AFP)

PARIS: The world may be seriously underestimating the amount of plastic waste along its coastlines, researchers said on Thursday (May 16) as they unveiled findings showing hundreds of millions of plastic fragments on a remote Indian Ocean archipelago.

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