WAI LINGDING ISLAND
China has almost 1/5 of the world population. 6.7 billion people dwell in megacities like Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Guangzhou around the Pearl River Delta of Southern China. Floating garbage patches flush down from the river delta to the used-to-be oasis archipelago area. South China Sea current then drifts the floating waste to the Pacific Ocean garbage patch – the 8th continent!
Styrofoam boxes, nylon fishing nets, plastic bottles, shoes, flip flop, toys, car tires, instant food packages, wraps and all kinds of oil fuel non-biodegradable by-products are found floating in the open water. Such floating garbage mass is polluting our ocean, harming marine life and ecosystem at all level.
Nature took revenge. Tonnes of plastic floating rubbish washed back to the seashores and beaches of the cities. The site falls in the open sea amidst of the Pearl River Delta Archipelago. Our site visit documented the accumulation of rubbish formed a huge rubbish cliff and all shorelines of the islands nearby are filled with rubbish.
Not only artificial rubbish Cliff was found in Wai LingDing Island, but also some natural environment we found is surprisingly stunning. Two extremes in the same Island, below is what we saw......
