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We also know the source of the plastic in the ocean... turns out it boils down to a very small number of rivers, in a very specific region of the world. https:/
by mrnobody_67 7y ago
We also know the source of the plastic in the ocean... turns out it boils down to a very small number of rivers, in a very specific region of the world. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-just-10-rivers/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
- internet_user 7y agoTarrifs proportionate to percentage of pollutants in river outflow should work great. I've heard they say you tax things you don't want to see? why not tax pollution at the source, the rivers?
- raxxorrax 7y agoTried that but the river had no money.
- tty2300 7y agoLikely to change soon. Those areas have stopped buying plastic waste from the rest of the world.
- sephamorr 7y agoHaving seen the trash coming down several of these rivers in person, everything I could identify seemed to be of local origin. I certainly didn't see non-local languages written on plastic bottles, for example.
- internet_user 7y agoIt's just fashionable to blame everything on the West. The East isn't any different.
- daodedickinson 7y agoSo absolutely nothing was coming from upstream? Or, at least, it seemed local trash was dominating the area and perhaps staying put? Perhaps when it gets too full of local trash, some of it gets moved to the ocean?
- ars 7y agoWhy would that change anything? This is local trash in the rivers not recycling.