A ban on single-use plastic and paper bags in grocery stores had an unintended effect: Delivery services switched to heavy, reusable sacks — lots of them.
Reports show that the Philippines' "sachet economy" involves the use of hundreds of millions of pieces of single-use plastic packaging and shopping bags on a daily basis.
There’s a lot of garbage littering the world’s oceans and shorelines, much of it plastic. What item do you think is most commonly found by volunteer trash collectors?
