PLASTIC POLLUTION BLIGHTS BAY OF BENGAL — IN PICTURES
THE GUARDIAN
In India, 6,000 tonnes of plastic waste lies uncollected every day. Some of this washes up in Tamil Nadu state, where it pollutes and contaminates the food and water of communities living along the Bay of Bengal
All photographs by Jacques de Lannoy
The backwaters of the Chunnambar river in Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry) hint at what southern India’s Bay of Bengal coastline looked like before erosion and pollution transformed the landscape
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