Pictures of Honduras "plastic ocean" are shocking and disgusting

According to the "Mirror" reported on October 27, photographer Caroline Power in her living near Honduras Rua Tan Island shooting a disgusting "plastic ocean" photos, you can see the ocean filled with lunch boxes and plastic bags And so rubbish, shocking scene so that she and peer dancers stunned.

The location of these photographs is only 15 miles from the paradise-like Rhone Island, which is one of the most primitive diving sites in the western Caribbean. Caroline and a diving group by boat through the floating trash, the contaminated area has a full "nearly 5 miles", one of which is about 2 miles wide. They found a lot of marine trash, including takeaway lunch boxes, plastic bags, football, toothbrushes, televisions and shoes.

Caroline is impassioned to call people to limit the use of plastic and handle it properly such as take action as foam containers recycling. She wrote on Facebook: "This must stop. Think about your daily life. How did you eat when you last eat? How did you last eat street food? It was most likely to be foam, and then Put it in a plastic bag with a plastic fork. Do you still use plastic garbage bags?

"It's frustrating to see a purely litter full of rubbish," said Caroline, and many marine animals, including turtles, whales and birds, mistakenly think of plastic waste as food.

The Blue Planet Association, which is committed to protecting the ocean, wrote in an effort to respond to these pictures: "It's incredible! We have seen a lot of shocking pictures of the environment. This is the worst case." The organization says Honduras has been established A special task force to deal with the crisis, and Guatemala is committed to the establishment of a "sewage trap" (waste trap), which will cost more than 1 million pounds.

Polystyrene foam plastic is widely used in our lives, but after discarded in the water or soil, it won’t rot for years, affecting the production of crops, and recycling through polystyrene compactor and reuse will bring people more interest, so it is very important to recycle polystyrene waste.