Focus - World Recycling Day: Thailand drowning in plastic. Two million tonnes of plastic waste are produced there each year.
Only a quarter of this mountain of waste is recycled. The country imports foreign waste: 372,000 tonnes in 2023. Overwhelmed by plastic, the Thai government has decided to ban these imports from 2025, because the country no longer wants to be the world's trash can. A report by William de Tamaris, Aruna Popuri and Matt Hunt.