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Volunteers clearing rubbish from our beaches which are constantly littered with plastic products like bags, straws and wrappers. — Filepic

GROWING up in the 1970s, I recall that almost everything was wrapped with paper.

People left provision shops, retail outlets and even textile stores carrying brown paper bags with strings made of twisted coconut fibre as handles.

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