08-12-2017 12:33 via theguardian.com

The social enterprise turning plastic waste into currency, for a cleaner ocean

Plastic Bank offers Haiti residents cash or vouchers in exchange for the waste they collect, which then goes on to be recycled into products
Millions of viewers of the BBC’s Blue Planet II will have seen footage of a turtle trapped in a plastic sack and a pilot whale nursing its dead calf. It’s likely to have died from drinking its mother’s plastic-contaminated milk.The episode prompted environment secretary Michael Gove to tweet: “Still haunted by last night’s #Blu
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