Yangon neighborhoods cleared of plastic garbage under money-for-waste campaign
Children, other residents motivated to pick up plastic bags and wrappers from under homes, streets and drains.
Source: rfa.org
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Children, other residents motivated to pick up plastic bags and wrappers from under homes, streets and drains.
The environmental organisation Thant Myanmar announced that it had disposed of 27,378 viss (44,626kg) of garbage that it had bought in three Yangon townships for 100 kyats per viss. (A viss is a unit of weight equal to 1.63 kg or 3.6 pounds.)