Enormous ‘Garbage Island’ Clogs River

Huge islands of garbage are causing trouble in the Balkans. Floating bodies of trash are piling up at dams in the region, and may even damage the power plants that operate there. On top of just being gross, environmental experts say all that trash threatens communities it passes through. They say it ends up in landfills that can catch fire and also leak toxic chemicals back into the waterways. One local said, “This is an ecological disaster, and it must not go on like this.”