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    1) The global production of plastic has increased dramatically from 1.5 million tons in 1950 to over 320 million tons in 2016 and is projected to double to over 640 million tons by 2034. 2) Microplastics have been found embedded in Arctic ice and there may now be around 5.25 trillion microscopic pieces of plastic floating in the world's oceans, weighing 269,000 tons in total. 3) A 2019 study found that Southeast Asian countries use 60 billion plastic sachets per year, which is approximately one sachet per person per day.

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    1) The global production of plastic has increased dramatically from 1.5 million tons in 1950 to over 320 million tons in 2016 and is projected to double to over 640 million tons by 2034. 2) Microplastics have been found embedded in Arctic ice and there may now be around 5.25 trillion microscopic pieces of plastic floating in the world's oceans, weighing 269,000 tons in total. 3) A 2019 study found that Southeast Asian countries use 60 billion plastic sachets per year, which is approximately one sachet per person per day.

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    1) The global production of plastic has increased dramatically from 1.5 million tons in 1950 to over 320 million tons in 2016 and is projected to double to over 640 million tons by 2034. 2) Microplastics have been found embedded in Arctic ice and there may now be around 5.25 trillion microscopic pieces of plastic floating in the world's oceans, weighing 269,000 tons in total. 3) A 2019 study found that Southeast Asian countries use 60 billion plastic sachets per year, which is approximately one sachet per person per day.

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    CHAPTER II

    REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

    Review of related literature

    In making concrete the world's total utilization can be assessed at 25.9 billion
    to 29.6 billion tons per year for 2012 alone. Totals likewise add to 90% of
    black-top asphalts and 80% of solid streets and the interest for totals
    originates from a wide scope of different areas.

    Scientists lately have found microplastics implanted somewhere down in the


    Arctic ice. In 1950, the total populace of 2.5 billion delivered 1.5 million tons of
    plastic; in 2016, a worldwide populace of more than 7 billion individuals
    created more than 320 million tons of plastic. This is set to twofold by 2034.
    Consistently around 8 million bits of plastic contamination discover their way
    into our seas. There may now be around 5.25 trillion full scale and
    microplastic pieces drifting in the vast sea. Weighing as much as 269,000 tons.

    A 2019 study by research agency, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives


    (GAIA), revealed that the Southeast Asian archipelago uses 60 billion plastic
    sachets every year. "On a per capita basis it's about one sachet per person, per
    day," Froilan Grate of GAIA Asia Pacific said in a report.

    This reality has motivated a group of engineers and entrepreneurs to take up


    an initiative that repurposes sachets, from being polluters to an effective
    solution to the plastic waste problem of the country.

    Green Antz Builders started as an advocacy among friends in 2012, but grew to
    become a social enterprise that produces eco-friendly construction hollow
    blocks, called "ecobricks", made of plastic sachets and other non-recyclable
    wastes.
    Yulores and his friends set up their first ecohub in Plaridel, Bulacan, a
    province north of Manila, where they produce over 20,000 ecobricks every
    month, disposing almost half a ton of sachets.

    By tapping on public schools and communities, the group was able to


    encourage the public to segregate their waste, collect the plastic sachets and
    bring them to their ecohubs. Their involvement will not go unrewarded -- every
    2.5 kilos of sachet they collect will get them a discount on ecobricks they buy.

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