Plastic bottles could turn to waste in a week: study

Plastic bottles — one of the main types of ocean garbage — are washing up in coastal areas within just 23 days of leaving the bottling line, Yen Ning (顏寧), chief executive officer of environmental consultancy the IndigoWaters Institute, said in an interview with the Central News Agency this week.
IndigoWaters, which offers services and advice to authorities in Taiwan on the management of coastal and ocean pollution, compiled data from the Environmental Protection Administration’s “Project of Promoting and Maintaining Clean Coasts and Performance Management: Rapid Assessment and Source Analysis,” which the agency released in December last year.
The analysis was based

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