Sachets: Lifeline for low-income Filipinos that fuel plastic waste crisis

Sachets: Lifeline for low-income Filipinos that fuel plastic waste crisis

Spanning across an area approximately the size of five soccer fields, a large landfill located in the Philippine province of Rizal has almost engulfed the mountains, fully epitomizing the scale of plastic waste crisis plaguing the Southeast Asian nation.

Negotiators are gathered in South Korea this week for the fifth and final UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting to agree globally binding rules on plastics, and the ruling could upend lives for low-income consumers like Gemma Gerolaga.

The Philippines is the planet’s top polluter when it comes to releasing plastic waste into the ocean, accounting for 36 percent of the total inputs globally, according to a 2022 report by the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford, a scientific online publication focusing on researches into global issues such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change and inequality.

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