The image shows a clean-up worker collecting nurdles on the Arniston beach in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Nurdles are pre-production plastic pellets and resin materials typically under 5mm in diameter. When released during the transport, packaging, and processing of plastics, these materials find their way to coastal waterways and oceans and frequently end up in the digestive tracts of various marine creatures, causing starvation and death. Unemployed locals were employed to clean the beach during the Covid 19 lockdown when the South African government had passed legislation prohibiting citizens from using the beaches in an effort to prevent the spread of Covid.