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Not sure in what country you are what I read on the internet most Western countries have issues with plastic bags floating int he air , bottles in rivers,side

Not sure in what country you are what I read on the internet most Western countries have issues with plastic bags floating int he air , bottles in rivers,side of the roads and forests where tourists hang out. I agree that collecting all plastic garbage and putting it in a big land fill is a good solution but encouraging people not to abuse the cheap or free plastic bugs systems in malls and shops is also a good solution. About poor countries I think you need to understand that there is no running water, public garbage collection and other western facilities there, accusing and not offering some real solution is just disingenuous,

pfisch 7y ago
> Not sure in what country you are what I read on the internet most Western countries have issues with plastic bags floating int he air , bottles in rivers,side of the roads and forests where tourists hang out. That is really not what the US looks like. There is not plastic trash everywhere. There is practically a public trash can on every corner here. All I am saying is I'm not sure the ideas in this article are a solution. Maybe this policy would be helpful in the countries that are actually the source of the plastic that is destroying the oceans though.
- simion314 7y ago
  So from this article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/08/drinks-bottles-now-biggest-plastic-menace-for-waterways-report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/08/drinks-b... I can see that UK has such a problem so this article about UK should not upset you, I am glad that US is cleaner (I am wondering if this is the same in poorer cities because your perspective could be biased by your location)
- andygates 7y ago
  In the UK, it used to be the norm to see a plastic bag tree, all aflutter with collected trash and generally foul. Since the free bag ban, those have disappeared. You may be young and/or wealthy if you don't remember trash everywhere.

pfisch 7y ago

> Not sure in what country you are what I read on the internet most Western countries have issues with plastic bags floating int he air , bottles in rivers,side of the roads and forests where tourists hang out. That is really not what the US looks like. There is not plastic trash everywhere. There is practically a public trash can on every corner here. All I am saying is I'm not sure the ideas in this article are a solution. Maybe this policy would be helpful in the countries that are actually the source of the plastic that is destroying the oceans though.

simion314 7y ago
So from this article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/08/drinks-bottles-now-biggest-plastic-menace-for-waterways-report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/08/drinks-b... I can see that UK has such a problem so this article about UK should not upset you, I am glad that US is cleaner (I am wondering if this is the same in poorer cities because your perspective could be biased by your location)
andygates 7y ago
In the UK, it used to be the norm to see a plastic bag tree, all aflutter with collected trash and generally foul. Since the free bag ban, those have disappeared. You may be young and/or wealthy if you don't remember trash everywhere.