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TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2018 advertise@manilastandard.net
By Peter Paul Duran
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O words ring true other than the following in our ever-growing world – plastic pollution has become a global epidemic. In truth, people throw away plastic waste each year that could encircle the earth four times over! What doesn’t ends up in our already brimming landďŹ lls ultimately reaches our oceans, thereby affecting more biodiversity and natural resource. The alarming part is that plastic waste is responsible for killing up to 1M seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals every year, but the saddening part to all this is that those numbers compose only a measly amount compared to the devastating and long-term effect (think 1000 years per piece) each plastic waste we throw away. In the Philippines, numerous stakeholders have gradually adapted measures to become less reliant on plastic products. Local government units in the country, especially in Metro Manila, have passed and are now Turn to C2