> Then when you look at plastic pollution and see that for the most part North America is quite good at properly disposing of plastic you wonder why we are so obsessed with this as a problem.

As someone who was struck by the magnitude of careless resource use when visiting the US this felt wrong when reading it. But I thought commenting did not help anyone.

Ironically not even a day later the first link on HN is titled: "U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds" [1]

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/us-pl...