BANGKOK: A line of prisoners emerges from Bangkok's sewers covered in a thick film of slime and hauling buckets of sludge—frontline troops in the battle against a rising tide of plastic waste.

Located just 50 centimeters above sea level and criss-crossed with canals, Thailand's throbbing capital has long had to fight off floods and an encroaching sea.

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