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The amount of completely useless plastic garbage that we would be sending back east would be mind-numbing. They don’t have anywhere to put that trash either.

• teiferer 10mo ago
  So maybe if you make the cost high enough (which is currently just externalized) then they might start disappearing by not being produced in the first place by lack of demand. People don't buy this because it's crap. They buy it because it's cheap.
  • irishcoffee 10mo ago
    > People don't buy this because it's crap. They buy it because it's cheap. This is an interesting thread to pull on. Why is it so inexpensive for the east to make plastic garbage and sell it to the world?
    • pyrolistical 10mo ago
      1. Plastic is cheap 2. Importers of cheap plastic crap are not on the hook of the eventual disposal. So the cost isn’t seen by the consumer at point of purchase but instead indirectly seen in increased taxes for garbage disposal