According to a study conducted by the environmental group Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), each Filipino uses 591 pieces of sachets and 337 plastic bags each year. That comes up to a total of 163 million sachets and 48 million plastic bags a day. Yearly, it means we dispose of about 60 billion sachets and 17.5 billion plastic bags. These numbers work to paint the picture of a fact we all ought to know: the Philippines is frequently listed as one of the world’s worst plastic polluters, especially on marine plastic pollution. While that ranking might also be attributed … Continue reading 60 billion sachets and 17.5 billion plastic bags are thrown each year in the Philippines