Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ...
by Hokusai on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:39PM
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Source: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/topics/waste-and-recycling/...
The goal in the EU is to reduce it to 10% in 15 years.
The USA landfill was of 50% in 2018. Some more legislation is needed. https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ...
by IfOnlyYouKnew on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:32PM
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Yeah, the news I remembered were about Germany, specifically.
it, and a few others, are at <=1% landfill: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/201...
Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ...
by Retric on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:39PM
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That’s extremely misleading Germany simply uses incinerators before dumping the ash in landfills.
“One nation now grappling with the legacy of its long embrace of incineration is Denmark. The country, one of Europe’s biggest waste producers, built so many incinerators that by 2018 it was importing a million tons of trash.”
https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-europe-a-backlash-is-growi...
“In 2018, 24% of all municipal waste generated in the EU was landfilled.” That said, incineration is a similar option that drastically lowers volume of waste, but still produced ash that ends up buried and vast amounts of CO2.