"In a month I need four-and-a-half sacks of rice, now all I have to buy is two sacks, which is a big help," resident Janeth Acevedo, 46, said as she sorted through trash that she had gathered.

In an effort to clean beaches, a town in the Philippines has created a unique incentive for locals to collect trash along the ...

plastic garbage bags, four banana plantation sacks and 16 rice sacks. “It was so bad the plastic was beginning calcification,” he said. “The plastic had been there a long time. The stomach ...