Plastic Pollution 2017

About Plastic Pollution on a Maldivian Beach. March 2017


Same atoll, different island, same problem. As always, I went to the beach before the cleaning guys did their job. The area I collected what is seen here was around 50 m shoreline in the very east of the island. The island is located at the very and of the entire atoll, so what washes up here does not come from a local island nearby. The amount of items is really devastating and trash can be found everywhere: on the beach, while bathing and snorkelling or diving. It is a massive pollution that takes place here and this problem can't be solved on a local level, as you can see in the next photo.


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