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Podcast: IEN Radio
Episode: Trashfence Catches a Garbage Tsunami Heading Downriver
Description: Trash is everywhere. It’s on land, where it sometimes piles so high it becomes a smoldering mountain. It’s in space, where it breaks down differently while moving at blistering speeds and being pummeled by solar radiation. And it’s in our water, where it sometimes forms huge garbage waves.The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, has identified one river where the trash waves seem to be continually breaking. The group said the Rio Motagua basin in Guatemala is particularly messy, sending an estimated 20,000 tons of plastic into the Caribbean Sea on an annual basis...