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the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the result not of their practices but of individuals' inevitable failure to be conscientious If you live in the United State
by lacker 5y ago
the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the result not of their practices but of individuals' inevitable failure to be conscientious
If you live in the United States or Europe, if you throw plastic away in the trash, there is virtually zero chance that it ends up in the ocean. To get plastic into the ocean in the US you would have to throw it in a storm drain that drains to the ocean, throw it directly into the ocean, or throw it into a river. The garbage patch is almost all coming from other countries that dump trash into rivers or the ocean.
- poloniculmov 5y agoThe local trash company gives the plastic to another company who pretends to handle recycling, they send it off to a company in Indonesia who then dumps it in the ocean.
- MrPatan 5y agoSo it was always better to not separate the plastic for recycling, just send it to the dump.