Siquijor, an island in the Philippines with 100,000 locals claims to have achieved 0 waste by prohibiting plastics on the island and that's not the only good thing about it. By implementing incinerator alternatives, waste reduction, reuse, refill, repair and recycle they have also created more and better paying jobs. For all this to work it takes community awareness and looking for green solutions that save money and the environment instead of throwing billions of dollars at false solutions. It sounds pretty much like Utopia but since the main industry is tourism I wonder how they police the tourists and their plastics that they no doubt brought with them? I couldn't find an answer for that question.
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