Plastic Bank: Over 200 firms help prevent two billion plastic bottles from polluting oceans

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Eight billion kilograms of plastic ends up in the world's oceans each year, according to Plastic Bank
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Eight billion kilograms of plastic ends up in the world's oceans each year, according to Plastic Bank

Social enterprise claims it was worked with 30,000 collectors to reintegrate plastic back into manufacturing supply chains

Over two billion plastic bottles have been collected and re-integrated into hundreds of leading brands' manufacturing supply chains through a waste collection initiative operated across the Philippines,...

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