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It depends on whether the poorer nation misrepresented what it would do with the trash.
by crazy1van 7y ago
It depends on whether the poorer nation misrepresented what it would do with the trash.
- peterwwillis 7y agoThis is the "How was I supposed to know the guns I sold would kill people?" defense
- oftenwrong 7y agoOr the "How was I supposed to know the car I sold would be used to run over a crowd of people?" defence
- boomlinde 7y agoAfter a few decades of exported plastic trash ending up in the oceans being common knowledge it doesn't matter whether the handling was initially misrepresented. At best it's willful ignorance, but let's not pretend people have been sending plastic trash to China under the assumption that it would be dealt with responsibly.
- madengr 7y agoChina is the source of that plastic. Flip over any plastic doo-dad; where is it made?
- boomlinde 7y agoFlip over any plastic doo-dad; where is it now? Who bought it? Who decided that we'd rather get these things from China than manufacture them here according to our environmental standards and regulations?
- shitgoose 7y agowas there ever any illusion what poorer nations would do with the trash?
- ionised 7y agoA poorer nation probably will misrepresent what they do with the trash. The sellers can't in all honestly claim they didn't know this would be the result.