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Come with plastic waste, go home with rice

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September 12, 2019

The Philippines is one of the biggest marine plastic polluters in the world. Now, a village on the outskirts of capital Manila is dealing with the plastic in a unique way. The officials are exchanging a kilogram of rice for every two kilograms of plastic waste.

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