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KCPR13 t1_j8s98k0 wrote

So why we have stupid paper items instead of plastic in Europe when the problem is actually in Asia? Let's ban knives in Germany because someone in Brazil got stabbed!

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crimeo t1_j8sufut wrote

  1. The problem with plastic is not exclusively ocean-trash related

  2. A lot of the plastic "from Asia" is shipped there from the West because they don't know what to do with it, then the people they ship it to in Asia sometimes dump it in the ocean. So a lot of that is functionally still from the West

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KCPR13 t1_j8t74o0 wrote

Actually a lot of recycable materials from Western Europe is processed in Eastern countries of the European Union like Poland.

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