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It's not as though this issue only affects the US: "Between January and October 2018, Germany exported 114,000 tons of plastic rubbish to Malaysia, an increase
by logifail 7y ago
It's not as though this issue only affects the US:
"Between January and October 2018, Germany exported 114,000 tons of plastic rubbish to Malaysia, an increase of 125 percent"
"Germans are great at separating their household waste, and the country is not allowed to export plastic unless it's for recycling. So why are there piles of German garbage all over Malaysia?"
https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/politics/the-plastic-trail-how-germanys-recycling-ends-up-in-malaysian-dumps-/24037020.html https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/politics/the-plastic-trai...
- neuronic 7y agoThis fails to mention that German recycling of paper, biowaste, cans and bottles is excellent. Plastic is a huge problem because it is a different beast and technology isnt there to efficiently recycle a lot of different plastics economically at nationwide scale. Some plastic needs to be used as ignition help when burning other garbage in power plants (where filtration massively reduces negative effects from burning in a centralized manner).
- Brotkrumen 7y ago>Schwandorf charges €150 per ton of industrial waste but this can increase to €800 per ton depending on the material. That's about 3 cent per package if the average package weighs 42g. That's dirt cheap for a pretty clean solution. We suck as a society.
- samirm 7y agoNot sure what the point of this comment is. It's not as though this article said this issue only affects the US...