> Rich nations do not know what to do with all the trash they produce.
I don't think this generalisation is correct. PG [0] digged up some numbers in a twitter thread:
"The US, Canada, and all of Europe combined account for .87% of plastic emissions. The Philippines accounts for 36%.
The reason the Philippines emits so much is not that it's emitting waste shipped from the US, Canada, and Europe. Even if every kilogram of plastic waste shipped by the US to the Philippines ended up in the sea, it would account for less than 1% of the Philippines' emissions."
I don't think this generalisation is correct. PG [0] digged up some numbers in a twitter thread:
"The US, Canada, and all of Europe combined account for .87% of plastic emissions. The Philippines accounts for 36%.
The reason the Philippines emits so much is not that it's emitting waste shipped from the US, Canada, and Europe. Even if every kilogram of plastic waste shipped by the US to the Philippines ended up in the sea, it would account for less than 1% of the Philippines' emissions."
[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1389150186283413505