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Thilafushi, the Maldives’ Taranto

Thilafushi, the Maldives’ Taranto

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It looks like sand. But it is rubbish. Thilafushi is 4 miles from Male, it is a strip, a thin strip: just 2 miles long, and 200 meters wide. And it is an artificial island. It grows of a square meter every day: every day of 330 tons of trash. The Maldives don’t have an […]