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 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.

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...

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.

Plastic pollution in the River Lea.

Plastic pollution in the River Lea.

Accumulated rubbish floats on the surface of the Xingu River.

Boys sort through electrical cables at a burning site at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

A boy carries electrical cables to a burning site at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-wa...

Monitor casings and other plastics burn along the edge of Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

Monitor casings and other plastics burn along the edge of Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

A boy burns cables from computers and other electronic equipment in order to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over t...

Plastic from e-waste is piled high at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here...

A boy holds an old laptop at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here every mo...

A woman sells packets of water as people burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electro...

Men and children burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over...

Goats graze around the Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here every month. I...

Boys burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment in order to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored near a public housing estate abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse afte...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stacked in front of the abandoned Tsushima primary school. The town of Namie, located about 9 km north of the nuclear plant, was evacuated as a result of th...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored in a field. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away....

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored in a paddy field. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the to...

Market stalls beside a hole in the street excavated to access water pipes.

People search for resellable plastic waste at an illegal rubbish dump in Banda where cows also graze on the pile of waste.

A woman searches for resellable plastic waste at an illegal rubbish dump in Banda where cows also graze on the pile of waste.

A man searches for resellable plastic waste at an illegal rubbish dump in Banda where his cows graze on the pile of waste.

A woman belonging to the Lakula Group Banda Plastics group with items of resellable plastic waste that they have recovered from an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

Piles of resellable plastic waste recovered by pickers from an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

Piles of resellable plastic waste recovered by pickers from an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

Women belonging to the Lakula Group Banda Plastics group search for items of resellable plastic waste at an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

Women belonging to the Lakula Group Banda Plastics group search for items of resellable plastic waste at an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

Women belonging to the Lakula Group Banda Plastics group search for items of resellable plastic waste at an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

Women belonging to the Lakula Group Banda Plastics group search for items of resellable plastic waste at an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

A woman belonging to the Lakula Group Banda Plastics group with items of resellable plastic waste that they have recovered from an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

A group of women belonging to the Lakula Group Banda Plastics group with items of resellable plastic waste that they have recovered from an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

A man with his collection of resellable plastic waste that he has recovered from an illegal rubbish dump in Banda.

Rubbish accumulated in the water under a stilt house in Altamira.

A street boy floats in a rubbish-strewn pool using a sack full of polystyrene as a raft to as he collects plastic bottles to sell to recyclers. It is estimated that there are more than 600,000 street...

A street boy floats in a rubbish-strewn pool using a sack full of polystyrene as a raft to as he collects plastic bottles to sell to recyclers. It is estimated that there are more than 600,000 street...

Waste plastic surrounds a fishing pirogue moored on a beach in the Guet Ndar district.

Rubbish spills into the river Tisza from a nearby waste dump.

A worker walks through Aneka Plastic, a factory that recycles plastic collected from the Bantar Gabang landfill site. The bags are washed and then manufactured into plastic pellets which are sold on....

Workers sorting plastic bags at Aneka Plastic, a factory that recycles plastic collected from the Bantar Gabang landfill site. The bags are washed and then manufactured into plastic pellets which are...

A worker gathers hand fulls of white plastic bags from a pile sorted by colour at Aneka Plastic, a factory that recycles plastic collected from the Bantar Gabang landfill site. The bags are washed and...

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rubbish pickers, avoiding the diggers operating all around them, search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landf...

A woman in Ciketing Udik, a village of recyclers beside the Bantar Gebang landfill site, sorts plastic bottles that have been collected from what is one of the world's largest landfills.

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rubbish pickers rest at dusk before they continue to search into the night for recyclable plastic and other items amongst the freshly dumped loads of waste, brought in from Jakarta, at the Bantar Gaba...

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rubbish pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rain pours on to a queue of trucks, part of a constant stream bringing rubbish from Jakarta to the giant Bantar Gabang landfill. Rubbish pickers search the site night and day for recyclable plastic an...

A rubbish picker takes a break from searching for recyclable plastic and other items at the Bantar Gabang landfill, to rest beside a stall selling snacks to recyclers and others at the site.

A woman in Ciketing Udik, a village of recyclers beside the Bantar Gebang landfill site, sorts plastic bottles that have been collected from what is one of the world's largest landfills.

Rubbish pickers search into the night for recyclable plastic and other items amongst the freshly dumped loads of waste, brought in from Jakarta, at the Bantar Gabang landfill.

Rubbish pickers, avoiding the diggers operating all around them, search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landf...

Rubbish pickers, avoiding the diggers operating all around them, search for recyclable plastic and other items amongst a freshly dumped load of waste brought in from Jakarta at the Bantar Gabang landf...