Some 2,500kg of plastic bottles have been collected from Sungai Kandis in Selangor.

The Selangor Maritime Gateway (SMG) initiative said a pilot project to capture floating debris in the river collected 2.5 metric tonnes (2,500kg) of plastic bottles in just one month.

"SMG is running a five-month pilot project with Nestle Malaysia Berhad to recover plastic waste from the Sungai Kandis log boom...