ya must be able to smell that thing from ten miles away
Posted on 07/02/2018 11:48:19 AM PDT by Sergio
Critics of Australian supermarkets' plastic bag ban continue to drum up protest, as it is revealed that 90 per cent of the world's plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers in Asia and Africa.
The river systems that carry the most waste into the ocean include the Amur, Ganges, Hai, Indus, Mekong, Pearl, Yangtze and Yellow Delta in Asia, as well as the Niger and Nile in Africa, a research paper has revealed. (trunc)
The study, carried out by Germany's Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, suggests that the most effective way of reducing the amount of plastic in the world's oceans is by addressing the sources of pollution along such waterways as these.
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I am glad I already ate lunch.
Note to self. Do not visit India.
Racist
India, Africa. Words fail me to describe the filth of the regions. Mexico, I have not been there but assume it is just as bad.
We do not what these cultures to live here. They can’t take care of their own countries.
Those nets would get clogged beyond recognition in just a few hours.
But of course, it’s all our fault. The idiots in Seattle voted yesterday to solve the problem by outlawing plastic straws and utensils.
Matthew had it right...
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
The Environmental Nutjobs should over there and start a 5 cent a bag campaign
Plastic-like materials can be made biodegradable, from soy and other materials.
Well that’s the stuff of nightmares.
Trump is right.
There are shhole countries.
In order to save the world, I am starting up a program for plastic credits. Those credits can be exchange for Carbon Credits Just working on the exchange rate for Carbon Credits. This could help develop countries off set the cost of Carbon credits.
It was the same Environmental nut jobs that convince the American Public to use plastic bags over trees to save the environment back in the early 80s. Wonder if some of those nuts jobs were invested in the oil industries.
I remember getting the save a tree speech when I first started working at Publics in Fla.
Before this bottles and paper were recycle. I remember the school paper drives, and collecting bottles on the road side for the deposit money.
I made a lot of money collecting bottles on the side road as a child...
“One day, someone will seriously promote the idea of sending a few tons of this plastic waste into Outer Space. “
At $20 million a ton?
It’s obviously the fault of the white heterosexual Christian patriarchal oppressors.
“Note to self...stay out of the Ganges.”
Fisherman/marine biologist Jeremy Wade just had a one season show named Mighty Rivers. He examined all the biggest rivers, including the Mississippi.
When at the Ganges he tested for human waste. They found massive amounts of human waste in the river at Varanasi, the city Hindus flock to for prayer and ceremonial river bathing.
The amount of HW was thousands of percent over what is considered polluted.
Note to self...Stay Out Of India PERIOD!
“India, Africa. Words fail me to describe the filth of the regions. Mexico, I have not been there but assume it is just as bad.”
Do we want this to be America?
I have never understood why India is such a sanitation mess. A recent National Geographic reported that less than half of the population had toilets — they went out into a field.
“But somehow it’s all our (USA) fault. “
They have also got us buying the “re-usable” bags that they probably make. And I thought Trump was good.
The Chinese don’t even need to photo shop their propaganda.
now bring our plastic straws back!
ya must be able to smell that thing from ten miles away
Where are the satellite images of these huge piles of trash?
The reason we don’t see any pictures is because they’re so small they can’t be seen from space.
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