MANILA - Each year, the Philippines generates enough garbage to fill more than 23,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Much of that does not end up in landfills, but on pavements and along canals, creeks, rivers and shorelines.
The Covid-19 pandemic has made things worse.
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