Plagued with discarded face masks, plastic bottles and other trash during the COVID-19 pandemic, a small riverside community in Manila created its own waste management service, giving its workers, ...
The project seeks to replace plastic water bottles and get plastic trash out of the ocean. A local water company CEO wanted to hear what they had to say.
The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.