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> Philippines is the world's largest source of ocean trash [...]

Here's a nice (well, actually horrifying) visual of the problem:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic...

> The Philippines—an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with a 36,289 kilometer coastline and 4,820 plastic emitting rivers—is estimated to emit 35% of the ocean’s plastic.

So how can we even start tackling this problem? they need about 4820 garbage collection services, it's going to be expensive...

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