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Race for Water - Every day a nightmare for this "Plastic Village" in Indonesia

by Race For Water 20 Jul 2019 10:56 UTC
Indonesia : Bangun plastic village © Race For Water Foundation

Two poignant films showing the painful reality of an innocent population drowning in the waste of the world

Race for Water takes us to Indonesia - close to Jakarta and along the river Citarum, to where the "Plastic Village" exists - a symbol of the environmental disaster caused by global plastic pollution which is threatening us all.

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