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[–]Insider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

https://www.atlasandboots.com/travel-blog/which-countries-produce-the-most-plastic-waste/

Some Western countries just export their plastic to other countries, which then dump the plastic in the ocean. Like..what's the point, you're just wasting more fuel transporting the plastic.

[–]NuclearBadger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I paid you to take my fridge to a recycling plant, and you dumped it in a country lane, that is not getting pinned on me.

But you're right though we should just burn plastics to generate electricity. At least you'd make it valuable and we wouldn't be eating it later.