Easter islanders deal with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour

One of the world’s most remote populations must deal with a flood of multinational plastic, much of it tossed overboard by the factory fishing ships hoovering up sealife just offshore

Study challenges popular idea that Easter islanders committed 'ecocide' Some 1,000 years ago, a small band of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places. Eventually, their numbers ballooned to unsustainable levels, they wrecked the environment, and their civilization collapsed.