Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:36:33 +0000
If Filipinos keep on throwing away more than 163 million plastic sachets daily, Metro Manila will be covered almost knee-deep in plastic waste in one year
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Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri vowed to support and fast-track any proposed measure at the Senate that would seek to ban single-use plastics, following reports that the Philippines was one of the major sources of plastic waste dumped in the oceans.
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Read moreThe United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Australia and other western countries were faced with growing piles of recyclables and no place to put them. Similar buildups have been reported in Canada, Ireland, Germany and several other European nations, while tons of rubbish is piling up in port cities like Hong Kong.
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