There are certain problems that do not politely stay within borders. Ocean plastic waste is one of them. It drifts, travels, circulates and, rather unhelpfully, arrives uninvited. One moment it is discarded hundreds of kilometres away; the next, it is washing up on a local shoreline as though it had always belonged there. Recent findings suggest that as much as 97 per cent of plastic waste found on Singapore’s recreational beaches originates ...

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