We have been talking a lot about the problem but not about the solution. It is time to come up with ideas. People of hacker news, how would you solve this problem if you were in charge of solving it?

Plastic can be recycled into fuel rather easily. Sponsoring plants in africa and china which convert waste plastic into fuel would appear to be a worthwhile endeavor. Then people might be incentivized to hold on to their plastic and exchange it for something of value, rather than discard it into the ocean.

Embargoes on countries that don't have proper waste management. We won't sell you stuff if you can't dispose of it properly. It's probably the only way to get lazy and corrupt governments to get their act together.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274675.

So China and India to blame for most of the plastic pollution in the world as well as most of the coal pollutions. What a surprise....

From whom do you think they imported all that plastic?