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Watch: President Duterte says he wants the garbage from Canada shipped back by next week. @bworldph pic.twitter.com/yI8vekgQPj
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Nestlé Philippines targets to use 100% recyclable packaging by 2025

Earlier this month, World Bank Acting Director for the Philippines Agata E. Pawlowska said in a Marine Plastics Conference that the country now has the highest rate of mismanaged plastics in the world. "There is a lack of statistics on the amount of plastic in the Philippine waters. What is known is that the amount of mismanaged plastic waste is continuously increasing, and that the plastic crisis requires urgent action," she said.
In December, House Bill No. 8692 was filed seeking a nationwide ban on single-use plastic products such as grocery bags, food packaging, water bottles, straws, cups and sachets. It is still on first reading at the House of Representatives.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Apr 23rd, 2019 at 11:08:31 PM EST
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"rate[s] of mismanaged plastics in the world"
Garbage clogs once-clear rivers in Bosnia, govt is blamed, as is the custom

The official government line, [Eco Action president Anes] Podic said, is that citizens are reckless with their garbage.
"The truth is quite the opposite," he insisted. "The government hasn't been able to sort out one of its basic tasks and that is collection of garbage."

It's not me.

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'upcycling', 'downcycling', recycling waste plastics
"The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed May 1st, 2019 at 03:55:37 PM EST
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