MANILA, Philippines — With Valentine’s Day around the corner, environmental watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition on Saturday urged the public to “break up” with single-use plastics as this “toxic relationship” is threatening the ecosystems, especially the marine environment.
“We can live without single-use plastics, but we cannot live sans clean oceans where a big chunk of these disposable plastics, along with their chemical additives, gets dumped every minute,” Patricia Nicdao, policy advocacy officer for EcoWaste Coalition said in a statement.
“Better quit this toxic relationship before the oceans completely turn into a plastic cesspool,” she added. “For the love of Mother Earth, …
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