A southern Philippine city has turned discarded plastic bottles into flowers to ...
A garden made out of 30,000 plastic bottles shaped into tulips is created as part of the local government's efforts to raise environment awareness and attract tourism in Lamitan City, Basilan, Philippines, September 23, 2019. Lgu Lamitan City/Handout via REUTERS
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. The Philippines is a major source of ocean plastics and only a small amount of its waste is recycled.
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