The amount of garbage along the Tamsui River and its tributaries has doubled in the past three years, with nearly 70 percent of it comprised of single-use plastic items, according to the results of a recent survey in the basin released Thursday by The Society of Wilderness (SOW), a local environmental NGO.
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