VALENZUELA, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES - 30 SEPTEMBER: A cat is seen near the plastic trash littered outside a house in Valenzuela, dubbed as the 'Plastic City', in Valenzuela, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on 30 September, 2024. In the highly urbanised city of Valenzuela, locals have been victimised by plastic wastes generated locally. As a hub for nearly hundreds of junk shops and 100 plastic recycling plants, they have been contributing to the worsening air pollution in the vicinity as they process parts of the astonishing 2.7 million tons of plastic wastes generated in the Southeast Asian country each year, which takes up about 20 percent of the tota Daniel Ceng / Anadolu/ABACAPRESS.COM