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Re:The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered wit... by refurb on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:20AM (#28018878)
Unless it’s our plastic waste that’s ending up in the ocean I’m not sure this matters.
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Re:The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered wit... by Voloskaya on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:56PM (#28030466)
It is.

> The United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabd0288

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