Fairuse t1_j69q68b wrote
Reply to comment by -Ch4s3- in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
Are you willing to pay the price for the clean up? Most of the waste generate is behalf of your consumption.
-Ch4s3- t1_j69qxmn wrote
None of that waste really comes from the US since China stopped buying American recycling. There’s a lot of single use plastics used in SE Asia, and they lack the disposal infrastructure we enjoy in developed economies.
m_bleep_bloop t1_j69tyem wrote
Except that reuse infrastructure is mostly fraudulent, and generally involves exports to…Southeast Asia
That’s US waste that’s causing the problem
-Ch4s3- t1_j6a3hr2 wrote
Those countries don’t really buy US plastic waste anymore.
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