[jansan]

How is that counted? The last time I was in Japan they still separated "burnable" and "non-burnable" waste. So if you burn the plastic, does it still count as waste?

IMO plastic is not that bad if it gets recycled or used as fuel source in power plants instead of becoming landfill.

[imp0cat]

They have so much plastic waste that they use it to build new islands in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumenoshima