Plastic pollution in PH: Why so much waste ends up in oceans
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Masses of plastic trash swirling in waterways, garbage clogging drainage canals and huge stinking dumpsites are among the most visible manifestations of the waste crisis in the Philippines. A 2015 report on plastic pollution by the Ocean Conservancy charity and the McKinsey Centre for Business and Environment ranked the Philippines as the third-largest source of discarded plastic that ends up in the ocean, behind two other Asian nations: China and Indonesia. The Philippines generates 2.7 million tons of plastic waste annually and 20 percent – or half a million tons – of that leaks into the oceans, the report stated.
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Plastic pollution in PH: Why so much waste ends up in oceans. (2018, November 3). Panay News, p. B8.
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Ocean Conservancy McKinsey Centre for Business and Environment Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives National Solid Waste Management Commission Mother Earth Foundation Greenpeace Southeast Asia Unilever Nestlé Procter & Gamble Colgate-Palmolive Asian Development Bank (ADB) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Pollution Control Association of the Philippine Plastic Pollution Coalition
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