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Re:Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021 by lopmotr on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:42PM (#23816373)
Oh, I've never heard of drowning in rubbish! With 5) I'm referring to geological effects causing landfill land to collapse and get washed away. That happened recently in New Zealand and a river ended up full of rubbish from a disused landfill.
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Re:Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021 by catalogia on Monday July 13, 2020 @12:59AM (#23817324)
Sorry, I mean Slate Star Codex's point 5 addresses your point 2. I communicated that poorly.

Incidentally a nice (rather amusing) example from pop culture of the "landfills are filling up and we'll soon drown in trash" meme is Futurama episode 'A Big Piece of Garbage'* (S01E08) It's essentially a parody of that NYC trash barge incident and the movie Armageddon.

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