Elephants forage for food at a rubbish dump encroaching on their jungle habitat in Oluvil, Sri Lanka in September 2020. Examination of dead elephants has revealed undigested polythene and other plastic waste. (Photo by Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images)

A reflection on waste liquid shows a tourist walking near the Blue mosque at the Sultanahmet Square on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Istanbul on April 13, 2021. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP Photo)

A boy looks for sellable materials close to the burning garbage in the permanent waste land under Sylhet City Corporation for a living, on January 15, 2015. (Photo by Md. Akhlas Uddin/Pacific Press)

A mahout washes an elephant in the river in Pinnawala, some 95 kms from the capital Colombo on April 15, 2020. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)

A woman washes her dishes outside the temporary shelter built near the houses damaged during an earthquake earlier this year, in Bhaktapur, Nepal December 28, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

Boy rests on bags of recyclable waste at a rubbish dump outside Yemen's Red Sea port city of Houdieda January 19, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)

This picture taken on June 3, 2023 shows wild elephants eating rubbish mixed with plastic waste at a dump in the eastern district of Ampara. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)

Soldiers from Japan's Ground Self Defense Force come ashore in amphibious assault vehicle as they train alongside U.S. Marines during the bilateral annual Iron Fist military training exercise in Camp Pendleton, California February 26, 2016. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)