U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)

Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by madaxe_again on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:47PM (#28030360)

Anywhere outside of a city centre, according to many. I live in a rural area. People drive out here from the city to dump their old appliances in the forests of this “junk land”. Almost every road corner has a pile of refrigerators and washing machines next to it. My current refrigerator was rescued from one of these impromptu landfills. Nothing at all wrong with it, just five years old, so it’s trash.

Just because you can’t see it, just because it doesn’t have value to property developers, does not make it junk.

I mean, by this logic, we should just dump our trash in the “junk water” which covers much of the planet.

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by madaxe_again on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:54AM (#28033644)

Ok. I guess if you’re all of the view this is wrong, would you mind if I came and dumped stuff in your city apartment? It looks like junk to me.

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by Causality1 on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:59PM (#28043239)

I don't know why you decided someone saying the US has plenty of junk land must be talking about your home. I was referring to dry salt flats, abandoned strip mines, and the like. The vast amounts of space under major cities would also make good landfill volume.

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by madaxe_again on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:41AM (#28046016)

Because the entire idea that land can be junk leads to a rapid broadening of the definition of junk. Your NIMBY attitude of “out of sight, out of mind” is exactly how we ended up in this mess in the first place.

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