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The researchers say the density of trash was the highest recorded anywhere in the world, despite Henderson Island's extreme remoteness. The island is located about halfway between New Zealand and Chile and is recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site. Lavers said Henderson Island is at the edge of a vortex of ocean currents known as the South Pacific gyre, which tends to capture and hold floating trash."The quantity of plastic there is truly alarming," Lavers told The Associated Press. "It's both beautiful and terrifying." She said she sometimes found herself getting mesmerized by the variety and colours of the plastic that litters the island before the tragedy of it would sink in again. Lavers and six others stayed on the island for 3 1/2 months in 2015 while conducting the study. They found the trash weighed an estimated 17.6 tons and that more than two-thirds of it was buried in shallow sediment on the beaches. Lavers said she noticed green toy soldiers that looked identical to those her brother played with as a child in the early 1980s, as well as red motels from the Monopoly board game. http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/scientists-find-38-million-pieces-of-trash-on-pacific-island-1.3415382
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carly
5/16/2017 12:47:01 pm
get people who like the world and ask them if they went to help clean up the beach
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Jack
5/16/2017 04:33:54 pm
My idea has not been invented yet but it is a vacuum that can fit in helecopters and are planes and it disintegrates the garbage . A real one could be a long net like they use on fishing vessels and drag it across the sand and it will get stuck in it .
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Preslee
5/17/2017 01:35:06 pm
Our world is fighting and only 35% of air we breath is real air.
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Preslee
5/17/2017 01:36:09 pm
me pick up garbage
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Dillon
5/21/2017 01:32:42 pm
Maybe to get everyone on the island to pick up all the garbage and who ever picks up the most 2nd most and 3rd most gets a prize.
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Alyssa
5/24/2017 02:18:43 pm
Get a team to clean it up and do not litter so it does not get any more garbage there
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Chace
5/24/2017 05:30:04 pm
The garbage was washed up there. We need to find a way to keep the garbage from ending up in the ocean so it doesn't wash up on the island. Need to stop littering into our oceans and maybe find a way for the world to use less plastics. Plastic doesn't go away. The weather and time won't get rid of it.
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Megan
6/18/2017 07:15:41 am
For everyone to come together and help clean and get mushiness to skop it up
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eric
10/26/2017 04:00:40 pm
stop littering
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melanija
2/12/2018 12:49:04 pm
get a dump trek and get a lot of popel to throw all the stuf in the dump trnk and get it all cleaned up.
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Hailey
3/23/2018 12:14:09 pm
grab a trash can
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