In Nigeria’s Lagos, small plastic sachets of clean water are sold from market stalls and shops across the city. Since appearing in the 1990s, the sachets have become hugely popular across Africa as a cheap way to access clean water. But they are also a huge environmental scourge and each day, up to 60 million empty sachets are discarded across Nigeria, according to the UN.
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