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This is ignorant; China has in recent years taken a hard line on pollution of various kinds. They already put a moratorium on importing foreign trash (which wa
by hwillis 6y ago
This is ignorant; China has in recent years taken a hard line on pollution of various kinds. They already put a moratorium on importing foreign trash (which was a huge source of river pollution) and are banning single use bags and straws: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51171491 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51171491
Packaging like plastic bags are by far the biggest source of river waste: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#plastic-waste-by-sector https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#plastic-waste-b...
China currently produces ~60% of global oceanic plastic waste: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#share-of-global-total-mismanaged-plastic-waste https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#share-of-global...
- azinman2 6y agoSo if China currently produces a majority of oceanic plastic waste, how hard a line could it be?
- jbay808 6y ago"if I'm hitting the accelerator hard, how could it be that I'm not currently moving fast?" I guess we'll see when they adopt these bubble barriers, or something similar.
- Dylan16807 6y ago"I've been holding the accelerator down hard for multiple minutes, why am I not moving fast?" They didn't start just a month or two ago. I share the skepticism of it being a "hard line".
- yholio 6y agoThe GP said that China/Asia produces 90%. You say China is at 60%, so if we add India and the rest of Southeast Asia, you are saying essentially the same thing. And while China might be starting to cleanup its act, India is fast urbanizing and increasing its waste production, with less investment in infrastructure. In a few years, the proportions might be swapped but the problem is not going away soon.