Antonina Pomazanko (76) looks down at the half buried body of her daughter, Tetiana (56), which lies virtually where she had fallen after being shot by Russian forces when they entered Bucha on the 27...

Mayonnaise (Putela), a character made out of recycled plastic bottles, to warn about the abusive use of plastic at 'la vie est belle', an artists' cooperative in the Matonge district. It is a place of...

Mayonnaise (Putela), a character made out of recycled plastic bottles, to warn about the abusive use of plastic at 'la vie est belle', an artists' cooperative in the Matonge district. It is a place of...

Mayonnaise (Putela), a character made out of recycled plastic bottles, to warn about the abusive use of plastic at 'la vie est belle', an artists' cooperative in the Matonge district. It is a place of...

Black plastic body bags containing corpses lie in a mass grave outside the church of St Andrew in Bucha.

Black plastic body bags containing corpses lie in a mass grave outside the church of St Andrew in Bucha.

Suited protestors spilled fake plastic 'nurdles', oil and cash amongst discarded fishing waste while 'dirty scrubbers' tried to greenwash the pollution as Ocean Rebellion activists protest two issues...

Suited protestors spilled fake plastic 'nurdles', oil and cash amongst discarded fishing waste while 'dirty scrubbers' tried to greenwash the pollution as Ocean Rebellion activists protest two issues...

Suited protestors spilled fake plastic 'nurdles', oil and cash amongst discarded fishing waste while 'dirty scrubbers' tried to greenwash the pollution as Ocean Rebellion activists protest two issues...

Suited protestors spilled fake plastic 'nurdles', oil and cash amongst discarded fishing waste while 'dirty scrubbers' tried to greenwash the pollution as Ocean Rebellion activists protest two issues...

A Territorial Defence soldier smokes a cigarette while taking a rest in a damaged shop that the force are using as an operating base, near the village of Stoyanka on the fluid front line along the riv...

A statue in central Lviv is wrapped in plastic in an attempt to protect it before an expected Russian attack on the city.

Synthetic plastic flowers on the door of a crypt at the Ermita de la Virgen de Criptana, a church on the outskirts of Campo de Criptana.

In the early morning and brother Basm Ullah, Aziz Ullah, Lali, Shasmsh Ullah, Safi Ullah and Hamid Ullah have just woken up in a house built of mud walls and with a roof made of old plastic, where Fai...

In a house built of mud walls and with a roof made of old plastic, Faiz Mahamad lives with his wife, sister-in-law and a total of 13 children. The family fled the war in Helmand and now survives by co...

A family burning plastic in the camp to make themselves a little food. About one thousand people have moved from their villages and farms in the countryside due to the food-crisis, and are now living...

A discarded empty plastic drug 'baggie' used for for weed and featuring a cannabis leaf motif.

A discarded empty plastic drug 'baggie' used for for weed and featuring a cartoon motif.

A discarded empty plastic drug 'baggie' used for for weed and featuring a cartoon motif.

A discarded empty plastic drug 'baggie' used for for weed.

A discarded empty plastic drug 'baggie' used for for weed and featuring a cartoon motif.

A discarded empty plastic drug 'baggie' used for for weed and featuring Homer Simpson motif.

A discarded empty plastic drug 'baggie' used for for weed and featuring smiley face motifs.

Volunteers unloading bags full of plastic mugs at a distribution centre. Residents of Dnipro have been bringing clothes, mats, canned food, cigarettes, bottled water and more. Volunteers then sort all...

Volunteers unloading plastic dishes at a distribution centre. Residents of Dnipro have been bringing clothes, mats, canned food, cigarettes, bottled water and more. Volunteers then sort all donated it...

A young man rests on plastic bags filled with donated blankets. Residents of Dnipro have been bringing clothes, mats, canned food, cigarettes, bottled water and more. Volunteers then sort all donated...

A sign adivising people that Gaya airport is single use plastic free.

An elderly man carries bags full of plastic bottles he has collected to take by bike to a recycling collection point.

Protestors demonstrating against the Turkish government's alleged corruption errect a barricade on the city's primary shopping and socialising hotspot, Istiklal street. Police responded with water can...

Two demonstrators take cover on Istiklal Street as police use a water canon and fire plastic pellets to disperse groups calling for the government to resign, amid a corruption scandal within the gover...

LGBT Syrians during the Istanbul Pride parade in 2015. The Pride was cancelled minutes before it was due to begin and marchers were faced with tear gas, water canon and plastic bullets.

Protestors demonstrating against the Turkish government's alleged corruption errect a barricade on the city's primary shopping and socialising hotspot, Istiklal street. Police responded with water can...

Ali Reza (L, 28) and Pedram (19), from Tehran and Shiraz, Iran. They live together in a house well known amongst the Iranian LGBT community, Ali Reza and Pedram place a plastic sheet over their garden...

Noor Bacha (53), alongside his children and grandchildren, adds a handful of plastic to the stove in their home. The family fled their home in Nangarhar province three years previously because of figh...

A newly constructed Turkish border wall snakes through the mountains along the border with Iran. It has been built as part of an attempt to prevent increasing numbers of Afghans from illegally crossin...

Bumble, a penguin with a foot infection, stands in a plastic crate during a visit to the vet.

Children cheer as a convoy of food delivery riders arrive at a wedding. Riders decorated their bikes and wore plastic garlands to celebrate their colleague's special day.

A convoy of food delivery riders makes its way along the Johannesburg motorway to attend the wedding of a colleague. Riders decorated their bikes and wore plastic garlands to celebrate their colleague...

Bumble, a penguin with a foot infection, stands in a plastic crate during a visit to the vet.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of these accumulate on the banks at bends in the river.

Rosa Jacome, a resident of the La Libertad neighborhood, waits for a food donation, wearing plastic gloves and a face mask. She lives with her children and has not been able to work since the beginnig...

Kelvin and Kerry Pope drink tea near their caravan that has been covered in black plastic to protect it from asbestos dust in the air due to the bushfires. Kelvin and Kerry Pope live 5km form Cobarg...

Plastic chairs, one with a bible resting on it, in the church hall run by the Presbyterian Church of Brazil in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

1, 3, 5 and 10 ruble coins of different shapes and colours. In 2014 Transnistria issued plastic coins for its local currency - the Transnistrian ruble. Transnistria, officially part of Moldova, is an...

People use plastic sheeting to protect themselves from fire water canon used by the police as tens of thousands of people gather on University Avenue Road to protest against the military dictatorship,...

People wear plastic raincoats to protect themselves from fire water canon used by the police as tens of thousands of people gather on University Avenue Road to protest against the military dictatorshi...

A man working at a plastic recycling business whose job is to load plastic bottles into the chipper machine.

A woman sorting plastic by colour at a recycling business.

A woman sorting plastic by colour at a recycling business.

A woman sorting plastic by colour at a recycling business.

Black plastic lining the Route de Ferney opposite the Hotel Intercontinental where US President Joe Biden is staying. On 16 June 2021 US president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin met i...

Black plastic and barbed wire in front of an appartment building behind the grounds of the Hotel Intercontinental where Joe Biden stayed during his Geneva visit. On 16 June 2021 US president Joe Bide...

Bob and Gail Curtis, owners of a gift and homeware business have been emptying dead mice caught in traps into a plastic bag to stop the smell. In 2021, farming areas in southeastern, southern and west...

Bob Curtis, owner of a gift and homeware business, holds a container full of dead mice which he has been emptying into plastic bags to stop the smell. He and his wife have been battling against mice d...

Paintings and other items covered in plastic sheeting at Villa La Grange in Parc de La Grange, the location for the Biden - Putin summit. The site is being prepared with officials, technicians, restor...

An ornate clock covered in plastic sheeting at Villa La Grange in Parc de La Grange, the location for the Biden - Putin summit. The site is being prepared with officials, technicians, restorers and ga...

Unusually black smoke is seen coming out of the chimney of a temple cremation furnace caused by plastic that wraps the body of COVID-19 victims being cremated and the increased temperature that COVID-...

Community volunteers (left) behind plastic sheeting check the temperature and symptoms of a COVID-19 positive person in a community run isolation for residents of the Klong Toei community who live in...

A hardware store selling plastic barrels and tubs of the type often used to to store and mix chemicals used in the manufacture of narcotic drugs and dissolve bodies in acid.

A man paddles a plastic boat in Windsor where over the previous weekend, the Hawkesbury River rose rapidly by more than 30 feet.

A man collects sand bags using a plastic boat in Windsor where over the previous weekend, the Hawkesbury River rose rapidly by more than 30 feet.

A man collects sand bags using a plastic boat in Windsor where over the previous weekend, the Hawkesbury River rose rapidly by more than 30 feet.

Plastic cups used for drinking palm wine in a 'poyo' bar in central Freetown.

Patients whose ankles are shackled sit in a small dark cell eating food from plastic containers at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. The...

A patient whose has had his ankles shackled sits in a small dark cell eating food from a plastic container at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola A...

Agyekum Abrokwah Joyce (26) sits in her stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market) from where she sells a range of plastic items imported from China.