Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
by xadhominemx on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:16PM
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How much of the microplastic contamination is from consumer goods packaging from western countries? The vast majority is from fishing nets and illegal dumping of household trash by developing countries.
Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
by DoingIsLearning on Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:40AM
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We can never pressure other countries to do it unless we do it first.
In addition, regulating plastic means that for multi-national corporations the path of least resistance is to operate under the most restrictive standard instead of maintaining multiple packaging solutions.
Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
by xadhominemx on Thursday September 17, 2020 @08:51AM
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You have no idea how consumer packaged goods supply chains work. And Chinese, Indian, and Nigerian policy makers are not going to care at all if we ban plastic soda bottles. And how high would this be on our list diplomatic priorities. Think about this for 4 seconds.
Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
by DoingIsLearning on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:43AM
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> You have no idea how consumer packaged goods supply chains work
I fully accept that. However I cannot accept that we leave the current status quo as is. We are very literally killing ourselves.
If you have other ideas or better approaches please share them so that they can be discussed.
... And a Lion's share of the microplastic calamity contaminating our oceans, our ground water and our food supply.
Not everything is about CO2 emissions. With a single business decision, Humans have managed to contaminate the whole water cycle with micro-plastics all the way up to alpine glaciers. [0]
Single-use plastic is outstandingly great for seller's short-term direct costs, bad for almost everything else.
[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02697...