Bangkok's plastic waste scourge
Debris is clogging up the city's drainage system and severely hampering efforts to to fight off floods especially during the monsoon months
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Bangkok
A LINE of prisoners emerges from Bangkok's sewers covered in a thick film of slime and hauling buckets of sludge - frontline troops in the battle against a rising tide of plastic waste.
Located just 50 centimetres above sea level and criss-crossed with canals, Thailand's throbbing capital has long had to fight off floods and an encroaching sea.
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