Re:A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees
by Baeocystin on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:37AM
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Yes, that is correct.
Please also note that the biggest contributor, and the biggest reason for China being that contributor, is simple lack of a functional garbage collection system at all in large parts of the country.
I emphasize this because I think people tend to focus on the minutiae (ie, paper, plastic or canvas when it comes to grocery bags) when the bulk of the problem has nothing to do with bag choice, it has to due to a complete lack of wastestream infrastructure. It is understandable to a degree. The problem is so overwhelming, it feels like what one person can do is never going to be enough.
Re:A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees
by _Codemonkeyism on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:41AM
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40% of plastic waste is not from the 5 countries. You make it sound as if China is only responsible for the oceanic plastic waste.
Re:A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees
by Baeocystin on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:23AM
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China is the primary contributor. It certainly isn't the only one! Plastic control is a worldwide problem.
"even a rounding error in terms of source waste."
Reading the report says "Low-residual-value plastic waste is more likely to leak than high-value plastic [...] his means that products or packaging with low residual value (plastic shopping bags, for instance) are less likely to be collected; they therefore become a particularly significant contributor to ocean plastic"