EU launches plastic management program in Southeast Asia
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The European Union will launch next year a program that aims to help countries in East and Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, implement better plastic waste management. “(There are) two central problems we are facing in the Philippines, two problems linked to each other although in a not very obvious way: the problem of climate change and the problem of plastic waste,” EU Ambassador Franz Jessen said at a climate change forum in Makati City on Friday. The program aims to strengthen cooperation with selected countries in East and Southeast Asia to jointly implement actions that will address sustainable consumption and production of plastic and prevention of plastic waste entering into the marine environment.
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Flores, H. (2018, October 18). EU launches plastic management program in Southeast Asia. The Philippine Star, p. B6.
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