An island of plastic waste

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Man-made island to plastic landfill: Pulau Gazumbo looks like an inviting island, but it is littered with plastic waste washed ashore most likely from George Town. — LIM BENG TATT /The Star GEORGE TOWN: A man-made island that greets visitors travelling along the Penang bridge has become an eye-sore, littered with plastic that poses a danger to the marine environment in the state and in the Strait of Malacca as a whole.The 3ha Pulau Gazumbo, formed from sand build-ups while the bridge was being built from 1983 to 1986, has so much rubbish that it now looks like a landfill. Its dense copse of trees hide a lurid collection of plastic waste washed up on the island, which is just 500m from the bridge on the right if you are coming from Butterworth.“You only see what’s on top. There is much more plastic buried under the sand over the decades. I could do a soil core test to show how de…