Household goods, fishing gear, plastic, and wood carried by Pacific currents are building up around the Hawaiian archipelago. The Japanese government commissioned the aerial survey to determine how much of the debris that has built up around hot spots on the coasts of the Aloha State's eight main islands was the result of Japan's devastating 2011 tsunami that killed around 19,000 people and resulted in the second-worst nuclear power disaster in history. As it turns out, the bits of plastic, old tires, and other pieces of garbage staining Hawaii's pristine shores have a much more mundane and routine origin: careless dumping. "This survey found a very limited amount of debris associated with the Japan tsunami," Suzanne Case, chairwoman of the Department of Land & Natural Resources, told the Associated Press. ...
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