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>it's good old fashioned hard work: hire more bin men, and put up more information posters I don't think that's the primary problem either. "Bin men" must be
by jaredhansen 8y ago
>it's good old fashioned hard work: hire more bin men, and put up more information posters
I don't think that's the primary problem either. "Bin men" must be paid and they are going to be too expensive, and "information posters" irrelevant, until the populations surrounding these rivers can reach a standard of living that gives them sufficient resources to pay bin men, and to care about what materials they need to put into which brightly colored bin.
In other words: fix GDP of these countries by improving global economic growth, and you will cut off the flow of plastic at its source.
- ManFromUranus 8y agoSo that sounds like you're suggesting we just wait until they become mature / developed economies... so just sit on our hands for a 2 or 3 decades maybe.
- ekianjo 8y agoTime does its job faster to solve problems that our best solutions do, though. Not suggesting for inaction, but we should not overstimate our capability to change behaviors either.
- worldsayshi 8y agoTime, meaning other people working?
- evanlivingston 8y ago"consume more so that we can consume more responsibly"
- fjdlksfjls 8y ago> In other words: fix GDP of these countries by improving global economic growth, and you will cut off the flow of plastic at its source. And Pearl River, 7th on the list, is in which third world country? * Never mind. It's Zhujiang/Canton River. China.