the corals get very little time to recover, let alone grow. and bleaching isn't the only threat they face. it's easy to forget that a coral reef is a living thing and just like us, to stay healthy, it needs to eat well. now, we all know the stories of the damage that plastic does to other marine life but, believe it or not, it can also damage a coral reef because it ingests this stuff in the form of microplastics and obviously, that does it no good at all. thanks. tourism in the maldives has been expanding rapidly since the 1970s — it went from only 60 beds to 60,000 — and plastic waste has become an enormous problem. but ground—breaking ways to deal with it are emerging. i'm off to soneva fushi, an exclusive destination for the super rich. but despite all the luxury,