When you can’t find a place on an entire planet where plastics and micro plastics do not exist, it’s way past a crisis, bruh.
It is a crisis. But nobody wants to talk about where it’s coming from.
If you look at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch:
33% - China
33% - Japan
15% - Korea
11% - Misc Countries (combined)
5% - United States
3% - TaiwanSource: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-great-pacific-garbage
So even if Biden could wave a wand and eliminate all plastic waste from the US… it’s 5% of the crisis.
does that 5% include all the garbage the US exports that then ultimately ends up in the ocean?
plus a third of all of that is unidentifiable
One guy from the Netherlands is cleaning a lot of that shit up though. Look up Boyan Slat. It’s not only about stopping the pollution, but also about how to help cleaning it up.
The Ocean Cleanup!
https://theoceancleanup.com/about/
15,000,000 kg of trash removed from oceans and rivers worldwide so far!
5% is still 5%, gains are good and may get other countries working towards the same goals.
Just because we can’t do it all in one go doesn’t mean we shouldn’t even start.
how else are we going to make handmaid’s tale come true. if you don’t want to live in a dystopian nightmare,. Vote Blue then Vote something better than Blue the next time cause you won’t be able to vote a next time if you vote red.
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We’re not gonna do anything, but boy howdy is it a crisis
