Posted on 03/31/2019 7:10:57 AM PDT by rktman
The mainstream media has been bombarding Western countries with news about the need to phase out plastic from our daily lives in order to protect the environment, focusing on the Worlds oceans. But how much of that plastic is actually the Wests fault? Its easy to see awareness campaigns about trapped animals in all sorts of trash and wanting to do something in order to prevent it from happening again. Lately, the mainstream media has been on a crusade against the horrors of plastic in developed nations, targeting disposable items such as plastic bags and plastic straws. Are they preaching to the right audience, though? In short no. If they want their campaign to be effective, the slogans should be written in Mandarin, Hindi or any African language. First of all, the disposal of waste in Western nations (and also other developed countries such as Japan or South Korea) is treated very differently than in developing nations in continents such as Africa and Asia.
(Excerpt) Read more at voiceofeurope.com ...
Thin plastic bags like those from Wal Mart last an average of 35 years buried in a landfill...
I understand that....but Pringles came up with a solution....and it’s about time regular chips does the same. It’s a manufacturing line problem which can be easily solved. They want you to buy with your eyes....and that means a big fat bag.
It's called Mt. Trashmore.
insists that we stop using plastic straws.
I remember when straws were made out of paper.
Just like we all have to have a bottle of something with us at all times. How many bazillion bottles did that sell. How many are plastic. And why do we have 10 in the cupboard...for a family of 2.
I use an empty water bottle....fill it 3/4 full and freeze it. A perfect all season solution.
I have been to 36 countries. The three absolute most garbage strewn places I have been are any city in africa, any where between tijuana and the Darien Gap, and southwest arkansas
As an amateur biologist I have seen countless examples of plastic used as nesting material, shelter, fertilizer, reef building, cover for baby fish, algae scrubbers, beneficial bacteria stations, and much much more.
The rare occasions of turtles, birds, and fish becoming entangled in plastic are infinitesimal compared to the extraordinary value plastic adds to the environment.
The author is, of course, also correct about third world waste disposal. In first world countries waste is land filled in sealed containers impervious to erosion and ground water. These massive sealed containers provide a rich source of mining operations for desirable materials at such point as it becomes financially viable to do so.
Like everything else about the environmental movement, plastic is a red herring designed to bankrupt advancing technology in favor of primitivism. It is, in a word, ignorant.
And the way America is headed 3rd world if the left gets in power.
Hubby and I picked up a bag of some cheddar things at Costco. They were horrible. He tried to feed one to the dog, and even the dog wouldn't eat it.
I can easily believe this article. Examples from places I have been:
Yemen, pink plastic bags blow around like huge drifts of snow.
Lagos, Nigeria, lagoon is filled with plastic bags they sell water in. A boat can only run a few minutes before the cooling water intake plugs.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria, trash is simply dumped into waterways and there are tons of it.
Perfect example: the mounds of trash leftover on the ground after any leftie “gathering”.
Pringles are flaked and formed, regular potato chips are less adulterated. Uniformity or variety?
It connects snowflakes to their feeling of being heroes - - then that heroic feeling to the democrat party’... It might seem silly but it's effective.
Oh, and the meme does absolutely NOTHING to deal with the real problem of plastics in our oceans..
LOL! Bought some bottled water at Smiths which was wrapped in plastic and since we didn’t have it “bagged”, the cashier stuck a thank you sticker on the package for not using plastic. Laughing, I asked and was told it was a corporate mandate. Shoulder shrug!?
Just wow! And the libs want to bring more of those polluters here.
Unlike Global Warming, I view this as an actual environmental danger.
It's not that I give a tinker's damn about Gaia. It's just that I'm cheap.
That was the plan for one landfill in the Bronx, NYC next to Eastchester Bay. Mound got so high that people in nearby Co-Op City started complaining. Many had bought their Co-Ops with a view of LI Sound, but as the garbage rose, the view became restricted to higher and higher floors.
City capped the fill and did have a “Bunny Slope” operation for a while...not sure if it continued, though.
In spite of this, "environmentalists" direct all of their attention and anger at developed countries, which are not the polluters, just as advocates of "population control" only complain about Americans and Europeans having kids, even though most American or European couples have 1-2 kids vs the 10 or so in many African and Middle Eastern countries.
Shows the superiority of our culture that were contribute a fraction of the pollution. It is not the plastic, it is the people and their ignorant cultures.
Tucker Carlson once remarked that you can't be anti-litter any more, because littering is just a wonderful expression of minority culture, so opposing it would be "racist." For the same reason, liberal environmentalists only complain about mostly non-existent pollution and overpopulation in the developed world, not in the Third World.
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