> If you want to argue that it produced cultural changes that directly affected how they local people reacted to mass plastic availability You're making that a

> If you want to argue that it produced cultural changes that directly affected how they local people reacted to mass plastic availability You're making that argument yourself in your own words. > you should make a specific argument, with evidence, about the changes it supposedly induced. I wouldn't argue that way. I would instead note two salient points. 1. Traditional Philippine food waste management involved disposing of food waste and packaging in rivers. That was environmentally sustainable when all food packaging was biodegradable e.g. banana leaves and coconut shells. 2. Whilst foreign companies introduced plastic packaging to the Philippines, nobody introduced a way to process plastic waste effectively, which is why we have this problem.