Re:World’s consumption of materials hits record 100bn tonnes...
by jsjohnst on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:52PM
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> As I showed, the desperately poor folk of Rwanda managed to get their government to make a plan. Their is no reason why hundreds of millions of these less-poor folk can't do it.
Apples and oranges!
It’s a heck of a lot easier to clean up plastic waste when you aren’t having literally millions of tons[0] of it shipped to you from the United States alone.
The issue isn’t a few folks aren’t picking up trash along the river/beach, it’s many orders of magnitude difference in scale.
Apples and oranges!
It’s a heck of a lot easier to clean up plastic waste when you aren’t having literally millions of tons[0] of it shipped to you from the United States alone.
The issue isn’t a few folks aren’t picking up trash along the river/beach, it’s many orders of magnitude difference in scale.
[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/21/ch...