If these governments cannot address plastic pollution, perhaps we should reduce plastic production to prevent it from entering our waterways in the first place.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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Holy crap, the USA is 90th?? I thought we made a shit ton of plastic pollution, carelessly! How the fuck are other nations making so much more?
America doesn't make anything anymore
Article makes a good point:
Outside experts worried that the study’s focus on pollution, rather than overall production, lets the plastics industry off the hook. Making plastics emits large amounts of greenhouse gas that contribute to climate change.
"These guys have defined plastic pollution in a much narrower way, as really just macroplastics that are emitted into the environment after the consumer, and it risks us losing our focus on the upstream and saying, hey now all we need to do is manage the waste better,” said Neil Tangri, senior director of science and policy at GAIA, a global network of advocacy organizations working on zero waste and environmental justice initiatives. “It’s necessary but it’s not the whole story.”
We focus on half the problem, the half we burn considerable fossil fuels to move the plastic waste just so it can be burnt somewhere else.
No one is really doing enough.
It's just when you set metrics and only care about meeting those metrics, you often lose sight of the goal.
This society is really going to have to destroy itself to stop, isn't it? I didn't even think about that. How we're shipping waste all around the world, shipping half built parts overseas and back just because its cheaper to put two bits together in another country. I'm pretty sure the plan at this point is everyone without a bunker dies.
Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler is what I imagine
Microplastics in the brain. Pfas in my floss. Even if we survive climate change our kids are going to have so much shit to fix
But at least the ultra wealthy got to make a couple extra £££
Just think about how much richer we made the rich.
At least we cut back on straws!