Pollution in Maldives is important in many local islands. With no alternatives to get rid of their garbage, the islanders now often throw at sea non-biodegradable wastes, or try toburn it without sorting plastics...In North Male' Atoll, one reef has been reclaimed using the waste collected all around the atoll by a network of local boats visiting the Islands. At first, reclaiming a reef in such a way does not seem to be the right solution, but in thie specific contaxt of the Maldives with very few land, this techniques enabled at least to sort waste and let all the other island clean. Threathing pollutionis not only local, as the risk of oil pollution due to increasing number of oil tankers, increasing industrial discharges from the countries to the north of the Maldives into the Indian Ocean or the Bay of Bengal area boosts the level of contamination of the marine environment around the Maldives. Discharge of heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead, and arsenic, in either waste water or in runoff is noted in the Indian Ocean Presence of organochlorine residues such as DDT in sediments, water column and marine organisms are reported in the Bay of Bengal region Concentrations of population around the Bay of Bengal region has resulted in voluminous discharge of sewage, garbage and other domestic effluents.