Planet or Plastic | National Geographic Magazine: Plastic “Junk Shop” in Manila

January 23, 2021 by
people sorting piles of trash outside a junk shop

Trash pickers bring their plastic to Alexander Ocag Junkshop where Baseco Happy Land and Aroma earning 15 pesos a kilo for sorted clean plastic. Twenty-five percent of the waste of the Philippines is produced in Metro Manila.