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Plastic water sachets create trash mountains

Sp: Impey, Joanna/A: Hermann, VanessaSeptember 12, 2012

In West Africa, buying water in plastic sachets has become popular in recent years. The half-liter translucent bags are considered a cheap, clean solution to water sanitation problems. But the trash is piling up in places like the Ghanaian capital, Accra.

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Report by Vanessa Hermann & Hervé Gogoua