[maria2]

90% of river-borne ocean plastic comes from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

Almost all plastic recyclables in the US is shipped to Asia and Africa. It’s simply not profitable to process here.

From the article:

> Recently, however, China has made efforts to curb waste.

> For years the country had imported millions of tons of recyclable waste from overseas, but a growing recycling burden at home prompted the government to shift its policy.

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>Almost all plastic recyclables in the US is shipped to Asia and Africa. It’s simply not profitable to process here.

>90% of river-borne ocean plastic comes from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa

Sounds like it isn't profitable there either, so why are we shipping it

[maria2]

It is profitable to recycle plastic if you can pay people a few dollars a day to sort through it all to find the valuable pieces.

China’s change in recycling policy was caused by, among other reasons, a documentary on the workers who sift through the countless volumes of plastic waste. It’s quite sad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qZwo6U5YFY

[winReInstall]

The packed that waste on fishing ships who dumped it on the way out and brought back fish. So basically, we dumped our plastic into the ocean, but with a clean consciousness after a convuluted process..

Can we stop pretending that whatever bejing decrees becomes reality in the country it claims to rule over? Its a nice play-pretend facade and the socialist inspired reality below is usually quite dystopian..

We pretend to recycle and they pretend to care..