The Philippines Is Making Roads With Plastic Waste. Solution to Plastic Pollution?
One of the world’s top plastic polluters is giving its garbage a second life by using it to construct much-needed infrastructure.
Philippine companies like San Miguel Corp. and Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. are using discarded shopping bags, sachet wrappers and plastic packaging to fire cement plants and build roads as the country embarks on an 8 trillion-peso ($157 billion) infrastructure push through 2022.
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