Floating International Trash | Eating Up Easter
Clip: Season 21 Episode 17 | 2m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
How does an island 2,500 miles from the mainland get rid of tourist trash? It's a problem.
In this excerpt from Eating Up Easter, isolated Rapa Nui or Easter Island, 2,500 miles from the mainland, has to find creative solutions (like shipping recycling out) to get rid of excess trash piling up from the throngs of tourists who visit -- only to find the planet brings even more trash back to the island's shores sent by ocean currents.
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Floating International Trash | Eating Up Easter
Clip: Season 21 Episode 17 | 2m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
In this excerpt from Eating Up Easter, isolated Rapa Nui or Easter Island, 2,500 miles from the mainland, has to find creative solutions (like shipping recycling out) to get rid of excess trash piling up from the throngs of tourists who visit -- only to find the planet brings even more trash back to the island's shores sent by ocean currents.
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Preview: S21 Ep17 | 30s | The challenge to protect remote Rapa Nui culture and environment from modernization. (30s)
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