How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by inglor_cz on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:56AM (#24452432)

Traditional forestry in Europe was keen on preserving total forest area for future harvest. And after the general shift from burning wood to burning coal, forests actually expanded.

In my country (Czechia) the contemporary forest cover is about twice as much as in the 18th century and several per cent bigger than in 1950.

The problem is species composition. Those forests are mostly monocultural and prone to devastating disease / pest outbreaks.

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Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by bjoli on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:31AM (#24467404)

I don't know about forest cover, but we have the same issues in Sweden. The biological diversity in areas used for forestry is poor compared to untouched forests. The recent dry weather has been very good for a kind of beetle that has destroyed vast amounts of trees. Forests that were untouched, or just mixed kind, did a lot better.

Regulation is slowly catching up though, and some of the larger companies have actually started doing more than is required by law.

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Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by andrewjl on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:34PM (#24453621)

Seems like an interesting computational ecology problem.

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