Comment by lanfeust6
4 days ago
The article goes over this. Plastic in oceans is from east asian countries without a good municipal waste system, not from developed countries.
4 days ago
The article goes over this. Plastic in oceans is from east asian countries without a good municipal waste system, not from developed countries.
Fixing the municipal waste system seems like the "add another system" school of engineering. As someone who works in poorly organized, poorly funded projects, I generally subscribe more to the "remove the problematic part of the existing system" school.
Getting rid of single-use wherever possible removes the broken part. I agree that we should also add more systems like proper waste disposal, but it's more complexity to count on.