An environmentalist group vowed to clean up Pasig River using blockchain technology, a move that is seen to resolve garbage problems in other parts of the world. Environmentalist and entrepreneur Mariano Jose Diaz Villafuerte IV has introduced blockchain application, a distributed ledge platform (DLT) that can generate data on garbage and plastics in the rivers, to formulate solutions to the garbage problem. Villafuerte is the chief executive offer (CEO) of CypherOdin Inc. and crypto currency BOTcoin, the companies that aim to clean up the world’s rivers and seas using blockchain technology.

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