It is not just about ocean plastic. Garbage is burned as fuel too in less developed countries. Stopping dumping of garbage in 2nd and 3rd world countries by developed/first world countries is going to benefit the environment in more ways than just reducing ocean plastics. We need to hold waste producers accountable. We need a systemic change, more push to reuse and recycle, better laws to limit production of single use plastics and a push towards repairability to limit production of e-waste.
>It is not just about ocean plastic. Garbage is burned as fuel too in less developed countries. Stopping dumping of garbage in 2nd and 3rd world countries by developed/first world countries is going to benefit the environment in more ways than just reducing ocean plastics.
But if only 2% of plastics worldwide is traded (source: same article I linked in my previous comment), and most of that is traded within the same region, how much waste could possibly end up getting shipped to less developed countries and burned? You'd still be better off trying to reduce domestic garbage production/burning in those countries.
> Garbage is burned as fuel too in less developed countries. Stopping dumping of garbage in 2nd and 3rd world countries by developed/first world countries is going to benefit the environment in more ways than just reducing ocean plastics.
what do you expect they'll burn for power if we stop paying them to take stuff to burn?
