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    Food wrappers top list of collected garbage

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    Date
    October 26, 2018
    Author
    Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI
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    DG20181026_15
    Excerpt
    Collected food wrappers numbering to 7,047 topped the list of collected garbage during the International Coastal Clean-up (ICC), which cleaned the 5-kilometer stretch of coastal areas of Brgy. Sto. Niño Sur in Arevalo district up to Brgy. Calumpang in Molo district. Four hundred ninety seven (497) trash bags with an estimated weight of 3,496.3 kilograms were collected by the 1,242 volunteers during the clean-up on September 22, 2018. Here are the top ten collected garbage that littered our coastal areas: 1. Food wrappers (7,047); 2. Plastic grocery bags (3,858); 3. Other plastic/foam packaging (3,733); 4. Tiny Plastic Pieces (3,357); 5. Other Plastic Bags (3,101); 6. Straws/Stirrers (2,982); 7. Shoes/Slippers (2,723); 8. Tiny Foam pieces (2,170); 9. Cigarette Butts (2,097); 10. Take out containers (1910).
    Citation
    Food wrappers top list of collected garbage. (2018, October 26). The Daily Guardian, p. 15.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/5026
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    Subject
    Litter; Plastics; Wastes; Coastal zone management; Solid impurities; Environment management; Environmental restoration; Data collections; Environmental protection; Zoological Society of London (ZSL); Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI; Ocean Conservancy; Sampulna, Jim; Cimatu, Roy; Arevalo, Iloilo; Molo; Iloilo
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