'Licence to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar
"In the past, during the rainy season I could pick watercress from this field to eat," one resident told AFP, asking not to be identified for security reasons.
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A woman walking over plastic waste covered up with a mixture of chaff and sand in Yangon’s Shwepyithar township. - In a working-class neighbourhood of Myanmar's Yangon. (AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
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In a working-class neighbourhood of Myanmar's Yangon, plastic waste is piled a metre high, the toxic product of what a recent investigation said is rampant