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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by fein on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:47PM (#17605553)
The waste generated by countries that have over 1 billion inhabitants each will dwarf the amount of garbage we could ship them even if all garbage storage in the US was outsourced to them.

It's a simple numbers game. 300 million will never produce as much waste as 1 billion.

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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by sumedh on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:28PM (#17606301)
> 300 million will never produce as much waste as 1 billion.

I dont have the numbers but Americans do produce more trash compared to majority of those billion. Its hard to compete with Americans when you live on $2 per day.

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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by fein on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:44PM (#17606777)
Note that I wrote shipped, not produced. That being said:

Sure, but that doesn't bode well for the future when that population of 1 billion starts elevating more of its people to the middle class.

Yes, poverty means less waste, but the global goal seems to be getting people out of poverty, which increases net pollution.

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