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This handout photograph taken on June 14, 2019 and received on July 30 from New Zealand-based media group Stuff shows a hermit crab sheltering in a plastic bucket on a beach on Henderson Island, an uninhabited member of the Pitcairn Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. Floating plastic garbage has swamped the remote Pacific island once regarded as an environmental jewel and scientists say little can be done to save it while our throwaway culture persists. Despite its extreme isolation, a freak confluence of geography and ocean currents means Henderson has one of the highest concentrations of plastic pollution on the planet. (Photo by Iain McGregor/AFP Photo)
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