Aerial view of the beaches of Taboga Island contaminated by an oily liquid in Panama on June 10, 2021. A oil liquid spill has affected the beaches of the tourist island of Taboga, informed the Panama Maritime Authority. The island's mayor's office urged residents and tourists to avoid using the beaches while cleanup work is being carried out and an investigation is underway into what could have caused this contamination, which has been affecting the area's fauna for the past three days. (Photo by Luis Acosta/AFP Photo)





Garbage, including plastic waste, is seen at the beach of Costa del Este, in Panama City, on April 19, 2021. Every two weeks, Marine Biology students descend about five meters in the sea to take care of a coral nursery of the staghorn species (Acropora cervicornis) in Portobelo, Panama, with which they aim to restore reefs damaged by climate change and pollution, as part of the Reef2Reef project. (Photo by Luis Acosta/AFP Photo)





Rubbish litters the beach after many visitors leave on June 25, 2020 in Bournemouth, United Kingdom. A major incident was declared by the local council as thousands flocked to Bournemouth and the Dorset coast. The UK is experiencing a summer heatwave, with temperatures in many parts of the country expected to rise above 30C and weather warnings in place for thunderstorms at the end of the week. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)





A grey heron stands between dumped plastic bottles and barrels on the bank of the Potpecko Lake on the Lim river, near city of Priboj, Serbia, Tuesday, January 5, 2021. Plastic bottles and other garbage are among tons of garbage clogging rivers in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia that were once famous for their emerald color and crystal clear waters. (Photo by Dragan Karadarevic/AP Photo)





A boat pushes tons of garbage stuck at the foot of the hydro power plant at the Potpecko accumulation lake near Priboj, in southwest Serbia, Friday, January 22, 2021. Serbia and other Balkan nations are virtually drowning in communal waste after decades of neglect and lack of efficient waste-management policies in the countries aspiring to join the European Union. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)





An oil spill is seen on “Sitio do Conde” beach in Conde, Bahia state, Brazil on October 12, 2019. (Photo by Adriano Machado/Reuters)





An aerial view of a contaminated area with garbage, plastic recipients, bottles and toxic waste generated by mining companies which have polluted the Tagarete River which flows into Uru Uru Lake on March 27, 2021, near Oruro, Bolivia. Plastic bottles, bags and waste from the San José mine affect the affluent rivers and the Uru Uru Lake, placed at 3,700 meters above sea level. Residents of the surrounding villages must go to Oruro to buy drinking water and are worried about waste mismanagement and pollution. (Photo by Gaston Brito Miserocchi/Getty Images)





In this photo provided by Grégoire Rouxel fuel is in the ocean leaking from a ship, rear right, that ran aground, Friday, August 7, 2020, in Mauritius. The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of environmental emergency” after a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground offshore days ago began spilling tons of fuel. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced the development late Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, as satellite images showed a dark slick spreading near environmental areas the government called “very sensitive”. (Photo by @gregrouxel via AP Photo)





People scoop leaked oil from the vessel MV Wakashio, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, that ran aground and caused oil leakage near Blue bay Marine Park in southeast Mauritius on August 9, 2020. France on August 8, 2020 dispatched aircraft and technical advisers from Reunion to Mauritius after the prime minister appealed for urgent assistance to contain a worsening oil spill polluting the island nation's famed reefs, lagoons and oceans. Rough seas have hampered efforts to stop fuel leaking from the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran aground two weeks ago, and is staining pristine waters in an ecologically protected marine area off the south-east coast. (Photo by Daren Mauree/AFP Photo)





This photo provided by the French Defense Ministry shows oil leaking from the MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that recently ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius,, Sunday August 9, 2020. The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of environmental emergency” after the Japanese-owned ship that ran aground offshore days ago began spilling tons of fuel. (Photo by Gwendoline Defente/EMAE via AP Photo)





A worker uses a tube to cleanup a stream polluted by blue colour ink on April 29, 2021, following an accident at a print plant near in Ghlin, Belgium. (Photo by David Stockman/Belga/AFP Photo)





Plastic bottles and garbage float on the Tagaret River, which flows into Uru Uru Lake, near Oruro, Bolivia, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





This handout photograph taken and released by the Marine Rescue Service of Russia on June 3, 2020, shows a large diesel spill in the Ambarnaya River outside Norilsk. Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 3 ordered a state of emergency and criticised a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel after a massive diesel spill into a Siberian river. The spill of over 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel took place on May 29, 2020. A fuel reservoir collapsed at a power plant near the city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle, and leaked into a nearby river. (Photo by Handout/Marine Rescue Service/AFP Photo)





A man shows a crab as he works to remove an oil spill on Suape beach in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco state, Brazil on October 20, 2019. (Photo by Diego Nigro/Reuters)





A general view of the surroundings of the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 21 October 2020. With 164 AQI (Air Quality Index), Sarajevo is one of the polluted cities in the world. (Photo by Fehim Demir/EPA/EFE)