A blanket of multi-colored plastic waste flowing in from tributaries covers Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador. Fizzy drink bottles, medication packets, tattered flipflops: all sorts of plastic rubbish can be found floating on 13,500-hectare (52 square mile) Lake Suchitlan, which serves as a reservoir for a power plant and is considered by UNESCO to be a wetland of international importance. Local fishermen say the pollution forces tilapia and cichlid fish deeper into the artificial lake—the largest body of freshwater in the country—where they cannot be reached with fishing nets read more : https://phys.org/news/2022-09-plastic-garbage-central-american-rivers.html