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Plastic in the US does not end up rivers, you are thinking of places like India. There's nothing wrong with plastic in a landfill.
by ars 2y ago
Plastic in the US does not end up rivers, you are thinking of places like India.
There's nothing wrong with plastic in a landfill.
- lanstin 2y agoI have personally seen, on a California beach, a carcass of some marine animal, I can't remember but maybe an elephant seal, that had been choked by a plastic grocery bag. I have seen subsequently, and considered briefly running after, many plastic bags in the streets blowing towards the storm runoff system. And plastic in a landfill tends to degrade over a very long period of time, into substances that seem to have a tendency towards contaminating water tables and ecosystems.
- gedy 2y agoI used to volunteer weekends cleaning remote beaches in California, and virtually all the plastic trash was from asia and/or asian ships (from the text and printing). US people using plastic is a very small problem in comparison.
- mcswell 2y agoI wish. There's a park on the east shore of the Potomac as it's widening below DC. A Boy Scout troop could literally pick up a ton of plastic in half a mile of shoreline (just go at low tide). Occasional metal (like a water heater, I think it was), but mostly plastic. I don't know whether it comes from stuff that washes into tributaries, or from boaters.