It doesn’t matter.
Just America. The other 198(?) countries are all okeedokee.
The article is really good if you can get by the title...its the rich countries sending there plastic to poor countries so they can say we recycle
Got to love the greens ...send our plastic to Asia...
Should be burned or shredded and put in landfills...
It is now in the Ocean because we shipped it there..
For several decades, Germans have been shipping their plastic to ‘dealers’ which sell (pay) someone else to move it elsewhere. Very little of it get recycled within Germany. I suspect most of the top ten tier countries do the same.
“The planet … is a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, ‘Why are we here?’”
“Plastic, A-Holes!”
-George Carlin
it magically just disappears- just like the left’s trillions of dollars for ‘free everything’ is going to just magically appear out of nowhere
It’s the America-hating Guardian, so they won’t mention China at all.
Was it better with paper bags and glass bottles?
I remember paper drives when I was a child, and collecting bottles on the side of the road for the deposit.
When I got my first job as a bag boy at Publics, they were pushing plastic bags as a way to save the world by saving trees.
A future issue will be mercury in our drinking water from the energy saving bulbs that burn out then deposit to our land fields.
I recycle with a smug look on my face, so I don’t have to worry about it. Everything’s just fine.
93% of oceanic plastic comes from just 10 rivers. One is the Nile. One is the Niger. The other 8 are in Asia.
The entire continents of Europe, North America, South America and Australia are responsible for 7% of oceanic plastic. Combined.
Yet the Manchester Guardian wants to call their article the United States of plastic??? LOL!
Recycling, generally, doesn’t work from a cost perspective... that’s the sad reality.
When recycled material is nearly as much as new material, there is little incentive to use recycled.
Plastic recycling should be a priority from an environment perspective, we are literally killing ourselves, slowly with it.... I have ZERO doubt that many of the endocrine disorders we are dealing with today, are largely due to the ingestion of plastics that most folks have no idea they are ingesting.
I sent the report and the following comments to my email list-—
“”For those ‘virtuous’ people, who feel so good about themselves because they have religiously recycled for decades without ever giving a second thought as to what happens with their garbage after it leaves their house, they may want to start asking some questions about what happens with their recycles.
Is there a difference if our garbage ends up in the Indian Ocean vs the Gulf of Mexico?
Having just returned from our trip to Malaysia and India, I can report on the amount of plastic garbage on their lands, rivers, and seas. Much of that garbage is compliments of ‘virtuous’ American recyclers!!!!!”””
Just got back from a trip to London. The thing there are disposable wooden flatware and pressed wood plates, made from bamboo. They suck! The tines on the fork are not long enough and don’t stab the food well enough to get it from the plate to your mouth. The knives don’t do their job either and all combined, add the flavor or raw wood to your food. Another inconvenient way of life from an inconvenient country.
Melt it down and turn it into shoes.
I hate drinking or eating from plastic for a number of reasons. The safest thing to do with it is turn it into shoes. Everybody wears shoes. Good market.
So we are sending all the plastic crap back to China that they sent here.
It used to go into our burn pile and buried but that was before laws were passed that we had to pay for the garbage truck to haul it off to be burned and buried.
Fake news
Coming from the guardian and a corporate social responsibility “professor,” the article is worth nothing.