Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Distribution of the World’s Plastic Pollution

Question:  Any piece of plastic, thrown anywhere into an ocean, can be found literally anywhere in the world’s five oceans in as little as 25 years.  But are there any points on Earth where plastic waste tends to collect more than others?

Also, where are the Cocos Islands, and what’s their story?  

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance:  Like so many of our other environmental nightmares, they tend to fall disproportionately on certain people in certain geographies.  It’s a cruel irony that, in general, these tend not to be the people who caused the problems in the first place.