On September 16, when Subhash Chandran, a scuba diver, along with four others, went for their first underwater clean-up post the lockdown at Rushikonda beach in Visakhapatnam, they found floating in the seabed N-95, surgical and cloth masks and other biomedical waste. The divers removed over 1500 kg of waste over three rounds till September … Continue reading Discarded single-use plastic masks and gloves are choking ocean beds