Claim about quantity of city’s plastic waste prompts debate
It was supposed to be about supermarkets helping the planet by cutting down on plastic bags, but it turned into a war of words – and a veritable duel of conflicting data – over just how many plastic products Phnom Penh’s population discards each day. On Monday, while discussing City Hall’s latest push to get major supermarkets to cut down on using plastic bags in a bid to protect the environment, deputy municipal governor Chan Som An, who is in charge of waste management at City Hall, said that plastic bags make up 50 percent of the 1,000 tons of trash collected each day in Phnom Penh…
