Swept in by the current of its tributaries, Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador is covered in a thick blanket of multicoloured plastic waste. The same thing has happened on the once-paradisiacal Caribbean beaches of Honduras. Not only is it an environmental disaster, it’s having a huge impact on the locals who rely on the water for income. El Salvador’s Lake Suchitlan is full of plasticSoda bottles, medicine containers, old sandals and all kinds of plastic materials float in El Salvador’s largest body of freshwater. It serves as a reservoir for a hydroelectric power plant and is considered a wetland…