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At one point, team members constructed a dam using plastic sheeting to carry rising flood water past the cave entrance.

She gives the example of a Lego pop-up where people could build a flower made of plastic bricks and then take it home.

They slept under the open sky, but when a light drizzle fell, Ms Estalicas and her family wrapped themselves up in plastic bags because they did not have raincoats.

Photos on social media showed them slouched on plastic chairs, swathed in plastic bags fogged up by their breath.

It suddenly started to rain, so Garcia Venegas quickly grabbed some plastic to cover his handiwork, but he never got the chance to use it.