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    The document discusses the issues of plastic pollution in various locations. It highlights how the Manila Bay in the Philippines is becoming polluted with plastic waste and garbage. Volunteers are seen sorting through plastics to identify recyclables. The document also shows plastic pollution on the remote South Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal and its impacts on wildlife like albatrosses and seals. The negative effects of plastic pollution discussed include plastic waste clogging drainage systems, releasing toxic chemicals as it breaks down over hundreds of years, accumulation of microplastics in the food chain, facilitating the spread of invasive species, and leaching of chemicals from buried plastic that can contaminate groundwater.

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    The document discusses the issues of plastic pollution in various locations. It highlights how the Manila Bay in the Philippines is becoming polluted with plastic waste and garbage. Volunteers are seen sorting through plastics to identify recyclables. The document also shows plastic pollution on the remote South Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal and its impacts on wildlife like albatrosses and seals. The negative effects of plastic pollution discussed include plastic waste clogging drainage systems, releasing toxic chemicals as it breaks down over hundreds of years, accumulation of microplastics in the food chain, facilitating the spread of invasive species, and leaching of chemicals from buried plastic that can contaminate groundwater.

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    The document discusses the issues of plastic pollution in various locations. It highlights how the Manila Bay in the Philippines is becoming polluted with plastic waste and garbage. Volunteers are seen sorting through plastics to identify recyclables. The document also shows plastic pollution on the remote South Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal and its impacts on wildlife like albatrosses and seals. The negative effects of plastic pollution discussed include plastic waste clogging drainage systems, releasing toxic chemicals as it breaks down over hundreds of years, accumulation of microplastics in the food chain, facilitating the spread of invasive species, and leaching of chemicals from buried plastic that can contaminate groundwater.

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    The document discusses the issues of plastic pollution in various locations. It highlights how the Manila Bay in the Philippines is becoming polluted with plastic waste and garbage. Volunteers are seen sorting through plastics to identify recyclables. The document also shows plastic pollution on the remote South Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal and its impacts on wildlife like albatrosses and seals. The negative effects of plastic pollution discussed include plastic waste clogging drainage systems, releasing toxic chemicals as it breaks down over hundreds of years, accumulation of microplastics in the food chain, facilitating the spread of invasive species, and leaching of chemicals from buried plastic that can contaminate groundwater.

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    PICTURES

    (LOCAL)

    POLLUTED WATERS. The Manila Bay is slowly becoming a garbage dumpsite. All photos by
    AC Dimatatac/Rappler

    Campaign against the use of plastic.

    Plastics in manila bay

    Picking out the possible recyclable plastics

    Volunteers classifying plastics for possible reuse.

    FOREIGN

    Although inhabited and remote, South Sentinel island is covered with plastic! Plastic pollution
    and marine debris, South Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal.

    An Albatross, victim of plastic ingestion

    Seal trapped in a fish net because of migration due to plastic pollution.

    Effects/Problems on plastics
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    plastic bags clog our overtaxed sewage systems


    A plastic bag takes 400 to 1,000 years to break down in a landfill, while releasing
    carcinogenic chemicals into the environment.
    Almost 90 percent of floating marine debris is plastic, which is especially harmful to
    marine life because it accumulates and concentrates toxins in the ocean
    Plastic breaks down into small particles called microplastics that end up in the food
    chain, harming fish and wildlife and posing a risk to human health. (S. Wright et al.,
    2013.)

    Floating plastic waste, which can survive for thousands of years in water, serves as mini
    transportation devices for invasive species, disrupting habitats.
    Plastic buried deep in landfills can leach harmful chemicals that spread into groundwater.
    When ingested, Chemicals added to plastics are absorbed by human bodies. Some of
    these compounds have been found to alter hormones or have other potential human health
    effects.
    Plastic debris, laced with chemicals and often ingested by marine animals, can injure or
    poison wildlife.
    the Philippines faces another danger: deadly flooding.
    Nung 2009 , Ondoy, Drainage systems that should have helped alleviate the
    flooding didnt function properly. Cleanups after the disaster revealed that
    garbageprimarily plastic bagswas responsible for blocking the drainage
    systems and making the typhoon so deadly

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