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		Symbiote on May 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021) That particular river was cleaned up in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_of_the_Pasig_Ri... There are plenty of (older?) pictures of it covered in plastic online. I don't think there's any reason to doubt the author's picture.

hk__2 on May 2, 2022 [–]

You can also see it on Google Street view as it has some imagery from 2014.

rootsudo on May 2, 2022 | [–]

It's still pretty bad, but it's a river, it depends where you look - the image depicated is near Tondo or the mouth where it enters Manila Bay.

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