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by badpun 1344 days ago
It would be great if it was weighted by toxicity though. Regular municipal waste is nowhere as dangerous or expensive to dispose of. Meanwhile in Eastern Europe, there are hundreds of sites discovered by authorities, where extremely toxic industrial waste from Western Europe plants is abandoned by various sham companies. Safely cleaning up each of those sites can cost dozens of millions of dollars (per site) and that's assuming the containers didn't break and the poison didn't leak into ground already.
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The article and all the figures are about plastic, not toxic industrial waste.