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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by abraae on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:23PM (#20733341)
> The real solution is to reduce consumption and push the packaging waste costs back on the companies making the products.

And to embrace landfill. People became conditioned to think how bad it was to bury mountains of garbage (which it is), but it's far better than pumping it into the air or waterways.

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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by melling on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:16PM (#20733838)
What groups dump plastic into waterways?

Isn’t they simply individuals throwing their trash into waterways and it makes it to the ocean?

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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by orev on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:21PM (#20734403)
According to the mentioned podcast, the large garbage patches don’t just happen as a result of currents collecting random floaters into one spot; they come from countries like China just dumping whole barges out in the ocean.
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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by Mountain_Skies on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:24PM (#20733872)
Apparently it was (and might still be) a solution to disposing of "recycling" that was sent to many poor nations for processing.
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