The tiny island is in the path of the South Pacific Gyre - an ocean current. This is why it accumulates as much as 17 tonnes of plastic rubbish. Henderson Island is a World Heritage Listed site ...

Henderson is considered the most polluted island in the world as Pacific currents dump masses of plastic and rubbish along its beaches Sailors on a Royal Navy warship have proved a remote Pacific ...

Eight billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since 1950. Much of it lies unrecycled in dumps, in the ocean or on beaches. (Photo: M. Gaspar/IAEA) Over 5000 kilometres from the nearest major land ...

We asked the experts: unless we change our ways, what will the ocean look like in 50 years? Plastic pollution on Henderson Island, an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean. There will be more ...

Scaling The Impossible Cleanups: Biodiversity Hotspots Restoration Missions Building on the success of its 2024 Proof of Concept mission on Henderson Island, Plastic Odyssey is now launching large ...

There's so much plastic in our oceans that it's washing up on beaches, even in places where there are no people, like here at an island in the Pacific Ocean called Henderson Island. Thousands of ...