Melmortu
Melmortu t1_j04i5bb wrote
Reply to [OC] Johnson & Johnson has HALF the net profit margin of Pfizer despite making almost $1bn more in net revenue by giteam
The fact that there is two "Revenue" columns, one being slightly higher than the other, is making me really unconfortable
Melmortu t1_j8rlw4l wrote
Reply to comment by hellcat_uk in [OC] Plastic waste emitted to the ocean per country by sometiara1
Doesn't work like that, these are plastics that are badly classified and dirty. Classifying and recycling them in developed countries is not economically viable, but with cheap labor from poor countries it is, so they buy them for nearly nothing, and they process them.
Thing is, most of it is not useful, so all of that unusable, unrecyclable plastic ends un in a poor country without the means to get rid of it. China used to do this until they banned the import of those plastics because the impact on people's health was more expensive to treat than the economic margin, and now it's done in SE Asia.
So, the blame is on developed countries for producing an incredible amount of unrecyclable plastics and shipping it there, not on poor people trying to make a living out of recycling it.