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A 38-year-old youth from Dibrugarh, along with three others, embarked on a 13-day river expedition in a boat built entirely from discarded plastic water bottles on the Brahmaputra. The mission aims to raise awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution and promote responsible waste management practices. Follow their journey to learn more!
Using a long-handled net, Ronnel Narvas scoops up discarded plastic soft drink bottles, shopping bags and palm-sized sachets as he wades through a foul-smelling tributary in the Philippine capital Manila. Narvas, 30, is one of more than a thousand rangers employed by the government to clean up the city's waterways, where tons of rubbish end up every year. "It's disappointing, because no matter how diligent we are at cleaning up, the garbage does not run out," Narvas told AFP of the never-ending battle against trash.
In Manila, where more than 14 million people live, only 60 percent of rubbish is collected, sorted and recycled daily, according to a 2022 World Bank report
Government workers craft recovered plastic waste at a facility in Paranaque, Metro Manila