Kawa'aloa Bay. May 5, 2019

The beauty of place creates a visual dichotomy with the marine plastic debris and the remoteness of the islands speaks to the distance that plastic is traveling before it arrives here. In fact the closest land mass is California at roughly 2,400 miles away, Japan being over 3,500 miles away and China and the Philippines around 5,000 miles. (photo by Elizabeth Weber)

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The beauty of place creates a visual dichotomy with the marine plastic debris and the remoteness of the islands speaks to the distance that plastic is traveling before it arrives here. In fact the closest land mass is California at roughly 2,400 miles away, Japan being over 3,500 miles away and China and the Philippines around 5,000 miles. (photo by Elizabeth Weber)