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95% of plastic in oceans comes from 3rd World countries
voiceofeurope.com ^ | 3/28/2019 | emma r

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 World’s oceans. But how much of that plastic is actually the West’s fault? It’s 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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: environment; notnews; plastic; plastique; polluters; pollution
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To: rktman

Thin plastic bags like those from Wal Mart last an average of 35 years buried in a landfill...


41 posted on 03/31/2019 7:59:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: pbear8

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.


42 posted on 03/31/2019 7:59:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: nascarnation
They have one like you describe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

It's called Mt. Trashmore.

43 posted on 03/31/2019 8:00:11 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: IronJack

insists that we stop using plastic straws.

I remember when straws were made out of paper.


44 posted on 03/31/2019 8:00:43 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: IronJack
They sell steel straws at bjs.

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.

45 posted on 03/31/2019 8:03:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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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


46 posted on 03/31/2019 8:04:10 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: dfwgator

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.


47 posted on 03/31/2019 8:04:16 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: rktman

And the way America is headed 3rd world if the left gets in power.


48 posted on 03/31/2019 8:10:49 AM PDT by maddog55
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To: nascarnation
But those were really unedible, LOL.

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.

49 posted on 03/31/2019 8:14:59 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: rktman

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.


50 posted on 03/31/2019 8:16:32 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Perfect example: the mounds of trash leftover on the ground after any leftie “gathering”.


51 posted on 03/31/2019 8:16:45 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Sacajaweau

Pringles are flaked and formed, regular potato chips are less adulterated. Uniformity or variety?


52 posted on 03/31/2019 8:17:12 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: rktman
The ‘plastic straw’ BS meme is designed to make each individual snowflakes feel they're involved - ‘doing their part’ to ‘save the earth’.

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..

53 posted on 03/31/2019 8:17:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (FBI: Did the Southern Poverty Law Center assist with organizing(and funding) Charlottesville?)
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To: Sacajaweau

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!?


54 posted on 03/31/2019 8:19:38 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Just wow! And the libs want to bring more of those polluters here.

Unlike Global Warming, I view this as an actual environmental danger.


55 posted on 03/31/2019 8:26:29 AM PDT by MNDude (Don't be a "posted already Nazi" I am postin blind!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Ten years ago (I'm not kidding), our babysitter bought a bottle of "spring water." She threw it out when it was empty. I recovered it, rinsed it out, and filled it. I keep it in the refrigerator so that I always have cold water when I want it.

It's not that I give a tinker's damn about Gaia. It's just that I'm cheap.

56 posted on 03/31/2019 8:29:41 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: nascarnation

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.


57 posted on 03/31/2019 8:30:04 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: rktman
No surprise really. The first difference anybody notices between developed nations and the Third World is sanitation. Developed countries tend not to have raw sewage or industrial waste running into waterways anymore, nor do they have piles of trash in the streets or floating downriver. Third World countries have all of the above.

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.

58 posted on 03/31/2019 8:35:32 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: rktman

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.


59 posted on 03/31/2019 8:36:59 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: dead
Not only does the overwhelming majority of trash in the ocean come from Third World countries, the overwhelming majority of litter in the US seems to be generated by Third World immigrants. Visit any public park after Mexican or Central American families had their picnic and it's as though someone emptied a dump truck into the park.

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.

60 posted on 03/31/2019 8:39:05 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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