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> The real solution is to reduce consumption and push the packaging waste costs back on the companies making the products. And to embrace landfill. People beca
by abraae 7y ago
> The real solution is to reduce consumption and push the packaging waste costs back on the companies making the products.
And to embrace landfill. People became conditioned to think how bad it was to bury mountains of garbage (which it is), but it's far better than pumping it into the air or waterways.
- melling 7y agoWhat groups dump plastic into waterways? Isn’t they simply individuals throwing their trash into waterways and it makes it to the ocean?
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoApparently it was (and might still be) a solution to disposing of "recycling" that was sent to many poor nations for processing.
- orev 7y agoAccording to the mentioned podcast, the large garbage patches don’t just happen as a result of currents collecting random floaters into one spot; they come from countries like China just dumping whole barges out in the ocean.