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Every minute in sub-Saharan Africa, enough plastic waste to cover a football pitch is openly dumped or burned. That’s according to the Christian development agency Tearfund who say the West’s “addiction” to single use plastics is fuelling a global crisis where 2 billion people have no safe way to dispose of rubbish, and are forced to live and work among piles of waste.
In Dandora, Nairobi (pictured), the equivalent of 30 truckloads of plastic packaging is dumped every day.
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