Plastic trash kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands each year

Mongabay
Feb 28, 2020, 12:06 pm240 pts
Remote islands are often held up as vestiges of pristine wilderness. In stark contrast, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Henderson Island are drowning in piles of plastic. A recent study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials estimates that more than half a million hermit crabs perish in accumulated…

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