• 5 months ago
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Transcript
00:00It is said that there is money in the garbage, but in Batangas, there is rice in exchange for the garbage.
00:07That is the Plastic Palit Bigas Program of an environmental group in the town of Mabini.
00:11Every bag of plastic garbage that can be used to clean the beach will be exchanged for a kilo of rice.
00:17This is a big help to the residents who are having a hard time with the budget for rice.
00:22That is why they are taking their own bags and accumulating plastic garbage.
00:27The fund came from private donors and some companies that are far from our beaches.
00:33According to the 2022 report of the Our World in Data Project of the University of Oxford,
00:38the Philippines is the largest contributor of plastic waste to the ocean in the world.
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