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World Environment Day: Is our planet drowning in plastic?

The world is focussing on different initiative to battle plastic pollution.

By :  dr swati srivastava
Update: 2018-06-05 09:22 GMT
Several organisations and volunteers are fighting back against the menace that is polluting water bodies and threatening to drown our cities (Photo: AFP/AP)
Taimur Nagar is one of many slums in Delhi and countless other Indian cities struggling to cope with waste, particularly plastic (Photo: AFP)
Low rates of rubbish collection in many parts of Asia is one of the main reasons why so much plastic waste ends up in the sea (Photo: AFP)
Delhi, home to about 20 million people, generates 9,600 tonnes of plastic waste a day (Photo: AFP)
An aerial view, taken on June 2, of the Niger river in the Malian capital Bamako, clogged with plastic waste (Photo: AFP)
Members of National Green Corps clean up plastic garbage along the Musi river in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, June 3, 2018. India is the global host for the forthcoming environmental day celebrations on june 5, 2018 with a theme “Beat Plastic Pollution” and launched an awareness program on environmental protection (Photo: AP)
Plastic problem: A landfill in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, gives an idea of the mess in Africa (Photo: AFP)
The world is focussing on different initiative to battle plastic pollution.

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