[OC] World's Largest Plastic Polluter Now 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference SponsorTrashHiking t1_ivuy8rp wrote
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Okay, let's say you recycle your plastic instead. Most municipal recycling programs don't do anything with their plastic except bundle it up and sent it offshore for someone else to deal with.
So even if you do everything right, the bottles still end up polluting the environment.
jmlinden7 t1_ivuyhm4 wrote
Most countries landfill or incinerate their plastic. However that's dependent on people not littering
TrashHiking t1_ivuzhxp wrote
Where it's broken down into microplastics and released into the environment.
You do know that landfills aren't static environments where anything you put in just stays there forever, right?
jmlinden7 t1_ivuzpqc wrote
Landfills are sealed off from the environment. Incinerators incinerate the microplastics into CO2.
TrashHiking t1_ivvbtv6 wrote
Seagulls, raccoons, bears, and other animals feast on garbage and carry it back into the environment (both literally and in their gut).
Is it your position that greenhouse gasses are not bad for the environment?
jmlinden7 t1_ivvc6r5 wrote
Oh CO2 is definitely bad for the environment (and to an extent so are landfills) but microplastics (and plastic) aren't the main concern.
TrashHiking t1_ivvg3oz wrote
Your initial statement was that people could just not litter.
I'm showing that the issue with plastic is harder than just not littering and you're moving goalposts now.
What's your actual point?
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