Incredible photos show mountains of plastic bottles washed up on idyllic honeymoon islands [View all]

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It's renowned for its luxury accommodation, turquoise waters and breath-taking beaches.

However, these images show the darker side to the Maldives - with huge amounts of rubbish washed up on the island’s pristine sands.

Award-winning filmmaker Alison Teal, 27, visited Thilafushi – or Trash Island - an artificial island created as a municipal landfill situated to the west of Malé.

..There are more than 400 tonnes of rubbish dumped on the Maldives’ island every day - a figure attributed largely to the tourist industry on which the chain of atolls relies. Each visitor generates 3.5kg of waste per day.









Much much more, with video too:

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