On: The Engineering of Landfills

[immibis]

E.g. the bottles we sent them for "recycling"

[gruez → immibis]

That makes up a tiny amount of overall plastic waste.

>I estimate that a few percent of ocean plastics could result from trade from rich countries. A figure as high as 5% would not be unreasonable.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade

[sofixa → immibis]

Not only. If you go to a developing country in Asia, more likely than not you'll see that locals have no issues throwing thrash everywhere in nature because they're not conscient of the problems it causes.

[aziaziazi → sofixa]

True, but for now Asia is far from the biggest consumer.

https://tappwater.co/blogs/blog/how-many-people-consume-bott....

https://www.statista.com/statistics/505794/cds-per-capita-co...

[sofixa → aziaziazi]

Considering that in some Asian countries the only way to acquire drinkable water is to buy it bottled, I'm somewhat doubtful of those "estimates".

[aziaziazi → immibis]

For the sake of analogy: or the sea food we buy from them