SINGAPORE/VARANASI, India – 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 program, 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.
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