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Originally Posted by JohnR
Emissions Output. The only metric that matters.
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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
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Bossman says straws don't matter
But China also stopped taking our straws, now we send them to someone else who will dump them in the ocean rather than us.
China implemented the National Sword policy at the beginning of 2018 to protect their environment and develop their own domestic recycling capacity by restricting imports of waste. Since exporting plastic waste is a convenient way for the United States (U.S.) and other industrialized countries to count plastic waste as “recycled” and avoid disposal costs and impacts at home, there has been a significant increase of plastic waste shipments to other countries instead of China. Unfortunately, most of our plastic waste is still shipped to countries that are not equipped to safely and securely manage it.