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Fruitndveg t1_irm8fu9 wrote

Carbon emissions and plastic waste aren’t interchangeable. You can’t equate one to the other. They’re both individually bad for different reasons.

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PM_ME_GENTIANS t1_is4be6g wrote

No, but the most pressing problem is still the carbon emissions, especially in a situation where the waste goes into a capped landfill like the above, as opposed to if it were in a country with uncovered landfills or high levels of material being "lost" to nature on the way to a landfill.

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