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> The amount of plastic is a small percentage of that volume - that 10-year mountain might become a single office building of solid plastic. A typical pedantic
by perfunctory 7y ago
> The amount of plastic is a small percentage of that volume - that 10-year mountain might become a single office building of solid plastic.
A typical pedantic HN's comment. The point of the infographic is to draw attention to the growing plastic pollution crisis. In 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans [0]. Plastic is falling out of the sky in Arctic [1]. Does it really matter if you count intact bottles or pure plastic volume?
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/20/by-2050-there-will-be-more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-worlds-oceans-study-says/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/2...
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051
- jacknews 7y agoNot at all My point is that plastic COLLECTION is the issue, not the amount produced. And wildly hyping the actual amount of plastic with dis-information-graphics does not help the cause.