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Re:EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021 by drak0n1c on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:45PM (#19514650)
Here is a HN comment from 3 months ago that includes extensive research on the subject. More specifically, much of the plastic waste in the ocean looks to be from merchant shipping abuses, not single-use plastic litter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731627

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Re:EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021 by jacobolus on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:23PM (#19515623)
Yes, we also need a worldwide ban on plastic fishing nets, and their replacement by something which biodegrades.

Pretty hard political problem though.

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