Elites rule, deplorables drool—everywhere.
who’d a thunk a 10 year old boy making up statistics could change the world.
Shipping in India is going to be very expensive.
But I suspect the plastic trash still flows in its rivers.
Governments virtue signalling.
Moreover governments who couldn’t give a crap about their own back yard. Their own people. The rest of the world.
Total bullshit!
-—sounds great to me—
-it’s about time India and China stopped being the biggest polluters of the oceans in the world—
Think of the replacements for the plastic items that will go into use on the ships, and then consider that cruise ships already often have problems with communicable diseases among the passengers.
And, the ban ignores the latest science on the breakdown in plastics by natural forces, both on land and in the seas. That breakdown is more common and much faster than earlier claims said it was.
Sun, the waves, and the sun+water over time tear the plastic apart, turning most of it into tiny pieces that microbes devour. Microbes eventually consume the plastic in the ground, taking sometimes only decades or centuries, and not the 1,000+ years previously thought to be the case. The microbes turn the plastic into what they can use of it and release carbon dioxide and carbon back to the earth.
Cool. More plastic for us!
No problem. Who would ever want to go to that cesspool... literally... where they $h1t it in the rivers they “bathe” in?
Microplastics in the oceans waters have been around for millions of years. Just look at ice core samples pulled from glaciers in Antarctica. I’m pretty sure that it is natural in origin and not from anything man has done.
Google “polluted Indian rivers” People in India are downright slobs. Trash everywhere.
No wonder the gov’t is doing this.
I saw “The Graduate” and plastic was a huge breakthrough and a great investment.
What are all those containers going to be made of if not plastic? Can’t be wood or paper because that’d mean cutting down trees and we can’t have that. Can’t be glass or clay because that involves pollution and causes more globull warming. Can’t be metal because recycling isn’t cost or effort effective.
India is a garbage pit as it is and now they want to ban things like garbage bags??