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In 2021, a research by the American Association for the Advancement of Science on the world's rivers ranked the Pasig River as the largest contributor of plastic waste to the world's oceans, additionally claiming that 28% of the rivers causing plastic pollution globally are in the Philippines. [4] [5]
The Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission was placed in charge of this attempt at implementing a ferry service down the Pasig River in 2007. [11] Before the Pasig became as polluted as it is, ferries were commonplace on the river. The last two attempts to bring in a ferry service were cut short due to too much garbage, shanty towns, and foul odors.
Around 20% of the plastic waste makes its way to the sea. [52] One estimate ranks the Philippines as the world's third largest producer of oceanic plastic waste. [53] The Pasig River deposits 72,000 tons of plastic into the sea annually, mostly during monsoons, placing it among the world's top 10 rivers that bring plastic waste to the sea. [54]
In 2018, the river suddenly began to change color due to gold mining. The river recorded the highest level of microplastics ever reported in river water globally in early 2024. [16] [17] Plastic pollution, heavy metals and cyanide contamination as a result of illegal gold mining, and human generated waste. [18] Threatening the Osun Osogbo ...
The forum drew on a U.N. study that found an 80% reduction in plastic pollution is possible by 2040 by “rethinking and redesigning products, reusing, recycling, reorienting and diversifying ...
Guatemala’s Las Vacas river is flooded with plastic. According to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch NGO working to remove plastic from the world’s waters, over 20,000 tonnes of plastic enter Las ...
The Pasig River (Filipino: Ilog Pasig; Spanish: Río Pásig) is a water body in the Philippines that connects Laguna de Bay to Manila Bay.Stretching for 25.2 kilometers (15.7 mi), it bisects the Philippine capital of Manila and its surrounding urban area into northern and southern halves.
The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a ...