Comment by awesomeusername

"The Outlaw Sea" is a book about the long history of the complexity of responsibility, ownership, in international shipping and the ships themselves. It's very good, it should be on the HN standard reading list, much like _The Box_.

I'm only interested in comments here from people who have an understanding of the complex world of outsourcing responsibility.

TL;DR: International cooperation isn't at a level where ANY country/bloc can have an impact on how their own waste is disposed of. The idea that magically that will happen with clothing is an admission of ignorance of this fact in decades old industries.

We need more and stronger international laws. The opposite of the current US administration's influence.