Big oil's flagship plastic waste project sinks in the Ganges: Report

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a Singapore-based non-profit group set up two years ago by big oil and chemical firms

A wheelbarrow and a handful of metal grids for capturing litter, emblazoned with the words “Renew Oceans,” sit rusting outside an empty, padlocked office in the Indian city of Varanasi, a short walk from the Ganges.
 
It is all that is left of a programme, funded by some of the world’s biggest oil and chemical companies, that they said could solve a runaway ocean plastic waste crisis which is killing marine life — from plankton to whales — and clogging tropical beaches and coral reefs.
 
The closure of Renew Oceans, which has not previously been reported, is a