By Nick Beresford, Moeko Saito Jensen, George Edgar and Maria Sargren
The Phnom Penh Post-Jun 7, 2018
On a street in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, a seafood café is setting up for the evening rush. Styrofoam boxes are being ripped open, and the broken tops dumped in the street.
Prawn-filled plastic bags are emptied into trays and thrown out. In a few minutes a small mountain of trash piles up on the sidewalk. As a rickshaw trundles by, the riders chuck an empty plastic drink container atop the heap. It is but one of hundreds of mounds of plastic that dot this rapidly urbanizing city.
Read more at: https://www.phnompenhpost.com/opinion/cambodias-plastic-problem
First published in: The Phnom Penh Post
