Saving the Earth One Bottle at a Time
One of the issues that I really feel strongly about is the plastic pollution in the Philippines. Our country is the 3rd largest contributor of plastic waste in the world and has among the highest trash collection rates in Southeast Asia. Whenever I see photos of animals suffering or dying because of what we are doing to the environment, my heart breaks. According to Nature Scientific Reports, a turtle has a 22% chance of dying if it eats 1 piece of plastic and the more plastic it eats, the higher the chance that it will die, and we’re just talking about turtles here. Can you feel me now? Waaaaahh..! Yes, I know that this blog is intended for food and travel and I was really hesitant to write about it for fear that it won’t match my blog’s readership (Naks! ) But the more I thought about it, the more that it made sense. There was never an instance where I didn’t use plastic whenever I buy or prepare food. My heart was breaking but I felt powerless becaus...