MANILA, Philippines — It took seven companies just a month to avoid wasting over one million single-use plastics, an environment advocacy group said on Friday.
In a statement, Oceana said that the outstanding figures came as some private companies adopted their advocacy of doing away with single-use plastics, or containers that would not be used again and would turn into garbage.
According to the non-government organization, local businesses Akbayanihan, Back to Basics, Eco Shift, Katha, Lush, Balay Qubo, and The Bamboo Company avoided a total of 1,055,098 single-use plastic just from November to December 2020
Oceana itself monitored the stores to count the number of transacti…
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