Southeast Asian nations grapple with worsening plastic trash crisis
Governments throughout Southeast Asia have launched a war on plastic waste. But most are still in the early stages of creating waste management strategies and passing laws needed to implement them.
According to the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., more than half of the world’s plastic waste can be found in five Asian countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Dan Southerland
