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World Environment Day: A plastic-wrapped world is choking life in the sea

About 8 million tonnes of plastic waste is dumped into the world's oceans every year

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A woman sits among plastic bottles segregated for recycling, at Bhopra near Nand Nagri, in New Delhi

BS Web Team New Delhi
A message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi about nurturing nature. A pledge by top companies to fight plastic pollution. A Twitter post by the United Nations asking people to take the #BeatPlasticPollution challenge. And a flurry of messages on social media sites.  

The build-up to 2018's World Environment Day (June 5) saw the outpouring of concerns in a world reeling due to its toxic air, increasing temperatures and a choking plastic menace. 

News reports in the past week have painted a grim picture of environmental degradation with plastic pollution being a real pain point.  

The death of a