At the same time, disposing of marine debris in remote island states is no easy task ... “Most of the rubbish we find was washed up from far-flung places like China or India,” says Fazir ...

Plastic in the sea and “ghost nets” that endanger marine life are causing a headache in the tropical Maldivian paradise. At ...

Simon Reeve visits an enormous rubbish dump in the Maldives for the BBC Two series ‘Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve’ and learns that its toxins may be polluting the sea.