Sri Lanka, Jan. 7 -- If you had passed by Marine Drive last week, it would have been extremely hard to have missed the Christmas Tree erected right next to the Wellawatte Station. Seeing Christmas trees all around is the norm this season. However, to see a Christmas tree entirely made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles is something unusual. After seven beach clean ups conducted in Galle Face, Modara, Dehiwala, South Mount Lavinia and Wellawatte, where volunteers collected over 2400 PET plastic bottles, Pearl Protectors erected this tree on December 22. This has been the second PET plastic bottle Christmas tree constructed by Pearl Protectors, a volunteer organization specifically focussed on marine conservation and prote...