From October 2023 to February 2024, volunteers collected, catalogued, and analyzed 10,801 sachets in several locations in the Philippines
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“The Philippines is inundated with plastic pollution in part due to the prevailing sachet economy driven primarily by corporations,” said the audit which was released on Wednesday, April 17. To visualize this, the audit said, “This figure is enough to bury the entire Metropolitan Manila area under a foot of plastic waste.”
“They must transition away from single-use plastic right away, starting with sachets, and begin adopting wide-scale reuse and refill models in the Philippines,” she added.While the law was a “meaningful step,” advocates criticized the law for “lacking ambition.”
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