Memes/Tweets (No politics)
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Interesting assuming it's true.
Not sure there's an angle on this tweet, but regardless it reminds me of the "we shouldn't have to reduce carbon emissions because China and India" argument.
Any reduction is a good reduction.
But perhaps we can look at the major polluters?
However, enjoy your paper straws in the meantime.
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Hardly surprising though. Most populated areas produce the most plastic waste except in the rich west where they can afford to take measures against it.
I think it's a valid point to raise in that Western democracies do put in effort to address pollution. We do try to keep reasonably pristine areas and there are countries that could afford to but can't be fucked. As there are those that pretend to love nature and animals and yet seem to revel in utter filth.
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The post underneath the one you linked refutes the ten rivers claim and the guy who put up the original post has admitted he used out of date data
Yesh. Reminder to believe everything you read on the internet...
... I did qualify my post with "assuming it's true". Not sure how the industrial powerhouse surrounding the Niger would generate so much plastic for example...
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@booboo Purely by chance I have been hearing a lot about plastic waste over the last week or so.
Points I remember
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Plastic waste is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else in the world
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The equivalent of a football pitch of plastic is dumped in sub-saharan Africa every minute
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Mainly because most African cities have poor waste collection services, which are user pays. So people either burn the stuff out the back of their home or take it to the nearest drain / stream and dump it.
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Dakar alone uses 5 million single use plastic bags a day.
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Coastal west african countries produce 7 million tonnes of plastic per annum. Most within 25 kms of the coast. Most of it ends up in the sea. There are literally thousands of tonnes of plastic (mainly bags and bottles) along the entire coastline and enormous islands of the stuff in the Gulf of Guinea
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Fisherman can't get out to sea through the plastic and when they do there are no fish anyway
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Similarly agricultural land is being lost as once you burn plastic on soil you contaminate it so crops won't grow.
All very depressing. The one interesting positive? was that for all the expensive recycling schemes in the west 60% of the plastic that is recycled globally comes from poor third world rubbish pickers
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