India, July 2 -- Peter, 63, is trying to catch fish with his dip net near the Munambam beach in Kerala's Kochi district since 6:30 am. But for almost seven hours, he catches only litter, mostly plastic. "People should stop dumping plastics into water; else there may be a situation where more plastic is caught than fish," he says. Some days, he catches 5-10 kg of fish and on other days there is only litter. In the seven hours Peter has been fishing today, he has collected 1 kg of plastic. During low tides and when dams are opened, large amounts of plastic arrive at the beach from the eastern side where the Periyar river flows into the Arabian Sea. After rains or flood, Peter collects 10-20 kg of plastic in a week. He says plastic in the se...