Cutting back on plastic that ends up in the ocean is actually a cause I can support and a disaster that IS manmade
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90% of all ocean plastic comes from four rivers — in China.
No. 5-20 is India and the rest of Asia.
Trash from the USA is overwhelmingly put in landfills, and, despite the myth, there is plenty of empty land for things.
It’s all a non-issue.
Go back to glass containers... dump a glass bottle in the ocean and it a few years it’s ‘sea glass’... after than it’s basically sand.
Plastic in the ocean is largely a third world problem. They don’t have garbage service with curbside pickups. Heck they don’t even have curbs. When they get too much plastic garbage they take it and toss it off the bridge. Then when the rain comes it washes out to the ocean. This is entirely true and verifiable. We ban convenient plastic bags but the net effect on ocean pollution is essentially zero because we aren’t the major cause of the problem.
For our parr we should stop selling food in plastic packaging to all the starving people of the planet. That is the extent of our involvement. We could build landfills under their bridges but that would be a short term fix.
Agreed. Though it is impossible so long as India and African nations continue to use rivers as garbage cans.