As an island nation, the Bahamas finds itself drowning in plastic carried from far away by ocean currents, as well as from its tourism industry and domestic use. Kristal Ambrose decided to try to do something about it.
Two proposals to clean up our oceans of garbage: Will either work?
The North Pacific isn’t the only ocean where plastic trash is accumulating by the ton. Marine scientists just back from the North Atlantic say it’s full of plastic too, and it might just be worse.
For today’s Geo Quiz we’re searching for a Pacific island atoll that lies just about halfway between North America and Asia. Its beaches are often littered with trash came from a floating mass of plastic trash called the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch.
