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Philippine plastic waste crisis spirals as buyers choose cheap sachet packaging | South China Morning Post

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The Philippines is the planet’s worst polluter in terms of the release of plastic waste into the ocean, responsible for as much as 36 per cent of the total global volume of such pollution according to a 2022 study by the University of Oxford in the UK. Environmentalists say the crisis has deepened because most Filip…

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