Sea turtles' sad fate: from restaurant menus to plastic 'soup' Dozens of sea turtles need rescuing every year around the coastal town of Watamu in Kenya, where plastic litter accumulates in the Indian Ocean and the beach from as far afield as Indonesia, Madagascar and Yemen, according to the product labels. At The UN environment assembly taking place in Nairobi (4-6 December 2017), plastic ocean pollution is one of the key items on the agenda. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES