{"id":108401,"date":"2020-03-27T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalteer.org\/reducing-plastic-pollution-asia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:16:15","slug":"reducing-plastic-pollution-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalteer.org\/canada\/reducing-plastic-pollution-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing the Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-108401\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-108401-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\"><div style=\"padding: 0px 0; \" data-overlay=\"true\" data-overlay-color=\"#000000\" class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-108401-0\"><div id=\"pgc-108401-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-108401-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\" data-title-color=\"#443f3f\" data-headings-color=\"#443f3f\" class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-108401-0-0-0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>There is a great need to reduce the plastic pollution in Southeast Asia. Throughout it's countries plastic pollution is a common sight. Bottles that were once clean and transparent are now lying on the ground, coated in a layer of dust. 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