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Philippine city turns plastic trash into tulips to fight waste

Published 09/25/2019, 12:05 PM
Updated 09/25/2019, 12:10 PM
Philippine city turns plastic trash into tulips to fight waste

MANILA, Sept 25 (Reuters) - A southern Philippine city has
turned discarded plastic bottles into flowers to fill a garden
of thousands of colourful tulips, capturing tourists' attention
and building awareness about recycling.
The tulip garden, which opened on Monday, was built from
26,877 bottles collected from 45 villages around Lamitan City in
Basilan, an island province on the southwestern tip of the
archipelago.
Plastic bottles were cut into the shape of tulips and
painted red, yellow, pink and blue, while others were blended
into sand and cement and used to make pathways in the garden.
The Philippines is a major source of ocean plastics and only
a small amount of its waste is recycled. Plastic bottles make up a large chunk of waste in Lamitan,
and turning them into a tourist attraction can help combat
plastic pollution, said the city's mayor, Rose Furigay.
"Let us be mindful of how to minimise the use of plastic,"
she said.
Basilan is among the country's poorest provinces, notorious
for being a stronghold of an Islamist group known for banditry
and kidnapping.

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