The problem is a world wide issue. The trash we are seeing, and we saw ALOT of it, just float by. The small sand banks, they see little foot traffic end up covered in trash. I doubt most of it came directly from Maldives resorts. But you would think a 5* resort would send staff to the island and clean it up before taking guests there.

I have to agree with the OP, with all the trash we saw sailing around the North/South Male Atolls it gave us great pause on returning to Maldives. Last year we spent a week sailing around Bora Bora and there was almost no trash.

TD