Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean ... fly onto the island inside in their stomachs each year, according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic.

The tiny island is in the path of the South Pacific Gyre - an ocean current. This is why it accumulates as much as 17 tonnes of plastic rubbish. Henderson Island is a World Heritage Listed site ...

Now, the population of Easter Island ... plastic pollution. In April, Easter Island leaders hosted the Rapa Nui Pacific Leaders' Summit to address microplastic pollution and strengthen ocean ...

Capt Charles Moore has just returned from a sampling expedition around Easter Island ... in the South Pacific, Arctic and Mediterranean. "It's hard not to find plastic in the ocean any more ...

The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ocean debris Scientists have discovered marine animals living on plastic ... Pacific coast and the Hawaiian Islands.