Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling (JAN. 11, 2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html
Posted on 04/20/2018 6:18:06 AM PDT by rktman
Up to 95 per cent of plastic polluting the world’s oceans pours in from just ten rivers, according to new research.
The top 10 rivers – eight of which are in Asia – accounted for so much plastic because of the mismanagement of waste.
About five trillion pounds is floating in the sea, and targeting the major sources – such as the Yangtze and the Ganges – could almost halve it, scientists claim.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt flew in coach-class seats on at least two trips home to Oklahoma when taxpayers weren’t footing the bill, despite claims he needed to travel in first class at government expense because of security threats.
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China and India are two huge countries with large and rapidly growing economies. China is already the largest carbon emitter and India is top 5 and growing. Half of those top 10 most polluted rivers are theirs.
Yet they both get a free pass from the envirosocialists. No limits on emissions for them. No No, the US must pay zillions. That is the only thing that will fix “global warming”. Because obviously carbon pumped into the atmosphere over there does no harm to da erf and is not a sin against Gaia.
If you go by what I've seen/read - roughly a bottlecap per acre. And, you assume that bottlecap is roughly a cubic inch in size. And that the trash patch is the size of Texas, which is roughly 172 million acres....
All the plastic in the "Great trash patch" would fit in a little over 300 dump trucks. That's a pretty small pile of trash, in something the size of Texas.
Well, residue from the manufacture of those plastic invisible guns is a major contributor to all the 3rd world pollution. So yeah, no guns=no pollution. Or something. I know. Let’s ask hogg breath. He knows everything.
Note the Rivers ,it’s not us ,so why all the fuss about plastic here
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html
I remember several years ago a discussion about just how much land would be required for trash dumping and it turned out it wasn’t really very much in the overall scheme of things.
Thanks,
How amazing. Con the world into saving and cleaning garbage so you can “recycle” it and at the same time, have absolutely nothing to “recycle” the garbage into.
There is no reasonable use for the vast majority of recyclables. It’s truly nothing more than an expensive make work project for otherwise unemployable people who can do nothing more than to “explore the exciting world of recyclable sorting.”
Aluminum alone makes fiscal sense, the rest should be sent to landfills where it can be wisely managed. Deterioration creates methane which is collected and sold for profit. If the world ever discovers a use for used pop bottles, there are hundreds of ready made mining facilities.
Instead, municipalities waste millions in these stupid feel good endeavors so people think they are “doing something.”
Not many people live there and use plastic.
I’ve given up on checking luggage on personal trips (don’t have anything that important).
But business travel, bane of my existence, keeps me at their mercy through the hanging bag (hostage).
Again, good luck.
Just look at the raw materials this guy has stockpiled. He could go into the pet chicken flavored dog chewies business or maybe the microfibre baby wipe or fabric softener towel business.
THATS one rich Chinaman!
I’ll be taking my first personal flight in 16 years next month.
I fly enough for work to prefer driving.
Wife and I are burning hotel and air points to go to the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
Nice!
Enjoy the vacation, sounds like a great trip.
I’m so old I remember when it was grocery bags and six-pack rings.
But did he follow that “one word”?
Late bookmark.
Clearly it's America's fault then.
Liberals believe the only way to fix the problem is to issue a plastic tax on all westerners.
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