Seven tonnes of marine plastic pollution collected on remote Arnhem Land beach
Further evidence that
plastic does not discriminate as it spreads across the planet: the marine
conservation organisation Sea Shepherd said it is washing up in large quantities
on a remote Australian beach. Sea Shepherd joined
Indigenous rangers in picking up more than seven tonnes of marine plastic
pollution on a two-kilometre stretch of Djulpan beach, in northeastern Arnhem
Land.
Using the same
analysis technique employed in
a recent study that found a staggering amount of rubbish on the tiny Cocos
(Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, researchers have estimated
there would have been 250m pieces of debris along the full stretch of the 14km
beach.
The clean-up of
Djulpan beach, about 2 1/2 hours drive from the township of Nhulunbuy on the
western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, was conducted over two weeks last
October. There is no road to the beach. The rangers from Dhimurru Aboriginal
Corporation cut a 4WD track through scrub to reach it....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/06/seven-tonnes-of-marine-plastic-pollution-collected-on-remote-arnhem-land-beach