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About a third of all marine plastic comes from one country: the Philippines, which has essentially no landfill capacity. One would hope that this concentrated h
by adonovan 3y ago
About a third of all marine plastic comes from one country: the Philippines, which has essentially no landfill capacity. One would hope that this concentrated hot spot (to use profiling terminology) makes it "low-hanging fruit" for intervention, but that hasn't happened yet.
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- wahnfrieden 3y agoWho would intervene and why?
- phs318u 3y agoPerhaps a global or regional coalition of commercial fishing associations interested in protecting their market. Speaking for myself, I can confirm that I've reduced my intake of ocean-sourced seafood over the last decade precisely because of the increasing prevalence of micro-plastics in the food chain (which seems to be a far greater problem for ocean-sourced food than land-sourced food).
- wahnfrieden 3y agoYou believe in a consumer driven intervention?