People walk past plastic waste on Badhwar Park beach by the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai.
Plastic Pollution: A Menace Across Globe
From Mumbai to New York, growing concerns over plastic pollution are becoming ubiquitous in major cities across the world. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), everyday plastic equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks is dumped into water bodies leading to millions of tonnes of plastic waste leaking into aquatic ecosystems and causing severe damage to the environmental, social, and economic prospects of the planet.
South Africa Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Jerome Delay
Alexandra Water Warriors volunteers cleanup the Juksei river in the heart of Alexandra township from plastic pollution in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Paraguay Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Jorge Saenz, File
An abandoned dog house sits alongside a landfill covered with discarded plastic materials in Asuncion, Paraguay.
New York Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Yuki Iwamura
A sanitation worker collects trash in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Hyderabad Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Mahesh Kumar A.
A cow looks for food by a pond surrounded with plastic waste in Hyderabad.
Philippines Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Aaron Favila
Children walk along debris, including plastics, that was washed ashore from previous typhoons along a bayside slum area in Navotas, Philippines.
Indonesia Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Dita Alangkara
Motorists ride past garbage, most of them plastic, piled up on the side of a road in Jakarta, Indonesia.
New Delhi Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Manish Swarup
People store various waste materials in plastic sacks for sorting out in New Delhi.
Peru Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Guadalupe Pardo
Plastic bottles collected from garbage dumps and streets by recycler Jorge Tejada fill a bag, in Lima, Peru.
Spain Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Emilio Morenatti
Rabbits wrapped in plastic bags are displayed for sale at a market in downtown Barcelona, Spain.
Frankfurt Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Michael Probst
Plastic waste is stored in a recycling centre in Frankfurt, Germany.
Serbia Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Darko Vojinovic
Coots float between dumped plastic bottles and waste on the bank of the river Sava in Belgrade, Serbia.
Berlin Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Markus Schreiber
Plastic garbage bales stand at the courtyard of the Interzero plastic sorting facility in Berlin, Germany.
Brazil Plastic Pollution
| Photo: AP/Bruna Prador
A discarded doll head lies on the shores of Guanabara Bay amid other trash in Rio de Janeiro.
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