> all you need is for the EU bloc and the US to implement such measures and plastic pollution in the world would fall an order of magnitude Hahahaha wow, who w

> all you need is for the EU bloc and the US to implement such measures and plastic pollution in the world would fall an order of magnitude Hahahaha wow, who would have thought it was that easy? Also, politicians do nothing about a problem not because they are spineless (about losing popularity, I think, is what you mean), but because they gain something out of not doing a thing about the problem. Many of the poor countries cited in the article might be democracies, but they are weak democracies with regulatory capture of private enterprises.