STORY: Easter Island is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic waste... mostly from elsewhere.The Chilean island receives ...
Easter Island is drowning in plastic waste, with about 50 times more plastic washing up on its shores than mainland Chile, due to its location in the South Pacific Gyre. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo ...
Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data from Rapa Nui, the island's local name, it ...