The World’s Trashiest Beach Is on a Remote Island in the South Pacific

(via Atlas Obscura)  Imagine the most perfect square meter of white sandy beach you can.  Now take 671 separate bits of plastic—buoys, scraps of fishing nets, water bottles, every manner of unidentifiable junk—and cram it into the sand before you lay down your towel. That’s what researchers from the University of Tasmania and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds recently found on Henderson Island, at 14-square-mile fleck of sand, jagged coral, and palm trees in the middle of the South Pacific.