Southeast Asia’s Plastic ‘Addiction’ Blights World’s Oceans

Fishing boats are seen on a beach covered with plastic waste in Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam June 4, 2018. Reuters/Nguyen Huy Kham

BANGKOK—On her lunch break, Bangkok office worker Chinapa Payakha emerges from a 7-Eleven store with two plastic bags.

One holds a Big Gulp soft drink. The other carries her lunch, with a banana in its own plastic wrapper.