Volunteers gather 3 tons of garbage in nature reserve

[Catherine]

Thirty volunteers traveled to Iceland's remote Hornstrandir Nature Reserve. They picked up 3 tons of garbage from the beaches and bagged it for the coast guard to pick up and remove.
The garbage is mostly plastic. Are we surprized?


http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0


It is admirable that so many people are willing to give their time to so massive a clean-up project. It is sad that they need to do it. This is a remote place and it is still covered by garbage.

This fits with all the discussions we have been having about the oceans being filled with plastic. There  is no place on eath that is so remote that plastic garbage can't find it. We are drowning in plastic garbage.

Three tons! That is a lot of garbage.