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PlasticPollutionMakkasan

20 JUNE 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A tuk-tuk (three wheeled taxi) puts a passenger's plastic bags of rambutan (a type of fruit) into his tuk-tuk at Makkasan Market, a small local market in central Bangkok. Officials in Thailand are wrestling with Thais use of plastic bags. The issue became a public one in early June when a whale in Thai waters died after ingesting 18 pounds of plastic. In a recent report, Ocean Conservancy claimed that Thailand, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam were responsible for as much as 60 percent of the plastic waste in the world's oceans. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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20 JUNE 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A tuk-tuk (three wheeled taxi) puts a passenger's plastic bags of rambutan (a type of fruit) into his tuk-tuk at Makkasan Market, a small local market in central Bangkok. Officials in Thailand are wrestling with Thais use of plastic bags. The issue became a public one in early June when a whale in Thai waters died after ingesting 18 pounds of plastic. In a recent report, Ocean Conservancy claimed that Thailand, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam were responsible for as much as 60 percent of the plastic waste in the world's oceans. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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