Plastic pollution is crossing frontiers in the Bay of Bengal. Countries are struggling to control it.
Just a few kilometres off the shores of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands —located in India’s Bay of Bengal— fishermen sometimes don’t find any fish… just plastic. The same plastic bottles and bags are also littered across the islands’ beaches.
But this plastic garbage is not all from locals: it travels far from countries around the Bengal Bay, such as Myanmar, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
As plastic pollution shifts from different countries, governments in the area ar
But this plastic garbage is not all from locals: it travels far from countries around the Bengal Bay, such as Myanmar, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
As plastic pollution shifts from different countries, governments in the area ar