Littering ship captains are trashing the tiny isle
is well named. It is an uninhabited rock in the South Atlantic ocean that belongs to Tristan da Cunha, a British dependency which itself vies with Easter Island for the honour of being the most remote inhabited place on the planet. Go there, though, and you will find its coast is covered with litter.
To impose some order on the question, he and his colleagues focused on one particular class of litter: bottles. Their definition of a bottle included jars and aerosol containers, and encompassed things made of metal, glass or polymer. Most, though, were of polyethylene terephthalate, a light plastic, and had once held drinks.
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