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Kamilo Beach on the southern tip of Hawaii's Big Island has long been a dumping ground for debris sent by ocean currents -- an estimated 20 tons wash ashore each year.
But Japan's 2011 tsunami is sending even more debris its way, adding to the impacts of the beach and wildlife, from seabirds to fish. Watch the reports by NBC's Miguel Almaguer for details.
Take a tour of what many are calling the world's dirtiest beach. Kamilo Beach sits on the southern tip of Hawaii's Big Island and gets an estimated 20 tons of garbage on its shores every year. Researchers and residents are worried tsunami debris from Japan will only add to an already overwhelming problem.
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Hawaiian beaches mostly littered with the Rich scum so who cares.
"Rich scum"? Sounds like you're rooting for people to be poor. Since when is working hard, earning money, and becoming successful a bad thing? Who do you think is going to hire YOU? A poor person? Whose going to enable you to support your family, lifestyle, pay your mortgage, buy your food, make your car payment, pay your utility bills, etc.? Someone on welfare?
Who is going to help support the poor? Rich and middle class, that's who. The poor can't contribute a whole lot of finances to the tax base for their own support, you know. "Rich scum"...thank GOD there are people who have had the wherewithal to keep me employed for the past 40 years!
Warren, I don't think you have a clue about Hawaii. Most people here struggle to make it and where this article is talking about (the Big Island) is mostly locals who make honest livings. Not sure what your problem is but please try to be accurately informed and don't leave ignorant comments.
I lived in Kona and composed poetry there. So sad,
and will pray for the Island.
It is a good place to begin to clean the sea.
I hope Japan is going to help foot the cost of this cleanup.
Yeah, Japan has given $5 million to the US for clean up of a natural disaster that wasn't their fault. Nice gesture. Guess what Obama and his ilk will do with the $5 mil? Well, the EPA folks will probably get an extra raise and Christmas bonus, or the funds will be siphoned off to another solar company disaster. No oversight, no accounting for the distribution, and the public will never know how this money was spent.
The only thing we'll ever hear out of this debris problem, is libs and dem yelling for MORE taxes to "help the environment".
The beach is "already an ocean dumping ground?" So, the tsunami debris has chosen the right place to land, no?
Nice when things work out.