Four ways Asia can cut the amount of plastic waste it dumps in the ocean

Addressing waste management in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam can make a real impact on the health of world's oceans

Photos of birds with their stomachs full of plastics. A recent study of fish markets around the world finding 28% of individual fish in Indonesia contained plastics (the figure was 25% in the US). The tragic and damaging consequences of our failure to deal with plastic waste are becoming ever more visible.

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