Clean Technica | By Steve Hanley | November 06, 2017:
Caroline Power is an underwater photographer who has lived on the island of Roatan in Honduras for the past 11 years. She says the amount of plastic trash floating in the ocean near her home has increased dramatically in the past several years.
Recently, while taking a group of tourists on a diving expedition, she took a series of photographs of the plastic trash she encountered along the way and posted them on her Facebook page. Those photos have now gone viral.
Seeing the plastic blanket of forks, bottles and rubbish between her home island of Roatan and the dive site on nearby Cayos Cochinos was shocking and upsetting, she tells The Telegraph. “To see something that I care so deeply for being killed, slowly choked to death by human waste was devastating,” she told The Telegraph. “Once the trash is in the ocean, it is incredibly difficult and costly to remove.
The key is to stop the trash before it enters the ocean. In order for that to happen, we need to improve waste management, environmental education and recycling facilities on a global scale. This is a developed nation (first world) problem as well.”
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