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Some takeaways: Trash is never dumped onto 3rd world countries. It's sold. The people there pay money for that trash because they want it. When people throw th
by ars 8y ago
Some takeaways: Trash is never dumped onto 3rd world countries. It's sold. The people there pay money for that trash because they want it.
When people throw things out they have expectations for what they want to happen with those items, and those expectations conflict with what really does happen, and what is the ideal result.
- baroffoos 8y agoI think people pay for it because they can make money on a small % of what they buy so they pick out the easy money and dump the trash somewhere else. So the result is pretty much the same. A bunch of trash from developed countries gets dumped on the 3rd world only 2 people made money from it and we can all feel good about it because no first world dumps trash in the ocean, they go through extra steps before that.
- rvense 8y agoThe people making money off buying trash don't have to deal with e.g. the effects of increased heavy metal poisoning on the kids growing up in these countries. Just become something involves a perfectly legal and straight-forward financial transaction doesn't mean it has no bad consequences.