Devastating impact of plastic pollution revealed in horrifying images of rubbish covered waters of the Caribbean
These 'trash islands' have been captured in images by photographer Caroline Power, who lives on Honduran island of Roatan.
THE scourge of plastic polluting our oceans and killing its marine life is laid bare in these photographs taken in the once pristine waters of the Caribbean.
The floating masses offer grim evidence of a vast and growing problem of everyday waste heedlessly dumped in the sea.
The sad spectacle has been captured in images by photographer Caroline Power, who lives on Honduran island of Roatan.
Some of the detritus clumped together in the waves that she documented was being deposited on beaches around Omoa, a seaside town.
It included hospital waste and plastic containers of all types.
Ms Power said: "We also do not know where the garbage comes from.”
According to the UN Environment Programme, 6.4 million tons of trash end up in the sea each year, with most of it - 70 per cent - falling into the depths.
Some 15 percent stays circulating on ocean currents, while the rest washes up on beaches.
The plastics waste problem came to light three years ago but has been getting worse since.
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