Meet Senegal's 'Plastic Man', who is on a mission against trash

Fall wearing his 'uniform' before an event about environmental health and pollution management in Dakar, Senegal. Photos: Leo Correa/AP

On a beach in Senegal with so much plastic trash that much of the sand is covered, one man is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of plastics – by wearing many of the bags, cups and other junk that might just as soon be part of trash piles.

Environmental activist Modou Fall, who many simply call "Plastic Man”, wears his uniform – "it's not a costume”, he emphasises – while telling anybody who will listen about the problems of plastics.