BANGKOK - Thailand started 2020 with a ban on single-use plastic. In the burst of enthusiasm that followed, people turned up at convenience stores with fishing nets, buckets, and even wheelbarrows, to cart away their purchases.
Mariam, the orphaned baby dugong turned national darling, had died just months earlier. The marine mammal had ingested plastic that clogged her stomach.
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