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Renewed focus on plastic waste

In this file photo, veterinarians worked on 80 pieces of black plastic rubbish found in the stomach of a male short-finned pilot whale that died in Songkhla province in 2018.

Thailand is pushing ahead with projects to reduce plastic waste as it struggles to reduce sea pollution, especially after efforts slowed during the pandemic.

In 2018, the Prayut Chan-o-cha government initiated a policy to ban single-use plastic bags and began by asking retailers not to hand them out for free to shoppers from Jan 1, 2020.

Later that same year, Thailand was hit by the pandemic, prompting the authorities to implement work-from-home…

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