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What a weird country, on the one hand they want to save environment from plastic pollution. On the other one tho.. invest in coal power plants, which will only make drought issues bigger.
800 pounds in a couple of weeks... kind of dispells the notion that it's not coming from western countries.
800 pounds? China pumps 4,800,000,000 pounds (2.4 million tons) of plastic into the ocean each year. No, western countries are not perfect. Yes, the vast majority of ocean waste comes from poor, non-Western countries. The US, 3rd largest country by population, is #20 for ocean pollution. China alone produces 1/3 of all ocean waste. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-s-oceans-cl...
800 pounds in a couple of weeks... kind of dispells the notion that it's not coming from western countries.
800 pounds? China pumps 4,800,000,000 pounds (2.4 million tons) of plastic into the ocean each year. No, western countries are not perfect. Yes, the vast majority of ocean waste comes from poor, non-Western countries. The US, 3rd largest country by population, is #20 for ocean pollution. China alone produces 1/3 of all ocean waste. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-s-oceans-cl...
What a weird country, on the one hand they want to save environment from plastic pollution. On the other one tho.. invest in coal power plants, which will only make drought issues bigger.
Trust me, a lot of Australians hate the current leadership and would love to see them gone. Unfortunately we are tending towards the trial version of USA.
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800 pounds? China pumps 4,800,000,000 pounds (2.4 million tons) of plastic into the ocean each year. No, western countries are not perfect. Yes, the vast majority of ocean waste comes from poor, non-Western countries. The US, 3rd largest country by population, is #20 for ocean pollution. China alone produces 1/3 of all ocean waste. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-s-oceans-cl...
Western countries export most of their plastic waste to the countries named in the article. Substantial amounts of the plastics China spills into the ocean are ours, exported there for “recycling”
What a weird country, on the one hand they want to save environment from plastic pollution. On the other one tho.. invest in coal power plants, which will only make drought issues bigger.
What a weird country, on the one hand they want to save environment from plastic pollution. On the other one tho.. invest in coal power plants, which will only make drought issues bigger.
This merely puts the plastic pollution somewhere else (into a dump near the ocean most likely), so it doesn’t really save anything. The problem is still the production of the materials in the first place.
But wouldn't you rather have all this garbage collected somewhere, than scattered throughout the river and beyond?
Interesting, I'm curious about the impact on wildlife and the way they switch the full nets for empty ones. They imply there's an overflow system in place I'd love to know how that works More info on the company manufacturing those http://stormwatersystems.com/trash-traps/ They also make trash collecting bots boats.