The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure

Re:The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered wit... by gurkendoktor on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:47AM (#28025330)

A good cost/benefit analysis would have to include this. And yes, I personally think that the developed world can drive change in other countries, otherwise I wouldn't donate to an NGO that attempts to do just that (not for plastics though).

One problem is that what I'm saying could easily be framed as "white people telling brown people what to do", and then everyone would drop it like a hot potato because it smells like colonialism. So it's politically safer to stay in my lane and buy a MacBook pouch made from recycled PET bottles instead.

(What I agree on is that the developed world should not export its trash or otherwise sabotage foreign countries.)

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Re:The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered wit... by 3grdlurker on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:59AM (#28038381)

The problem isn't just "white people telling brown people what to do", though that's certainly one aspect of it. The more important issue, though, is that there's no way for developed countries to significantly "drive change" in other countries without undermining the sovereignty of the latter through some kind of bribery or debt trap or predatory trade deal.

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