Pollution......we’re all going to die.

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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
I can't help but remember in the movie "The Graduate" with Dustin Hoffman..... In the first couple of minutes into the film, Ben (his character) was in the swimming pool and a business friend of his dad was talking to him about what field he should go into to make a good career & a lot of money......and he told him "Plastics.....go into plastics because it's going to be really big one day". Sadly, someone in the audience took that piece of advice & ran with it.
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I remember that line very well, and I haven't seen that movie but once when it came out. How long ago was that, 50 years?
 
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Watching Life Below Zero on NatGeo, there’s an ad that starts with an image that looks like an iceberg and then zoom in and it’s a plastic grocery bag floating upside down. The caption: Plastic or Planet.
 
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That chart shows asia pollutes 1000x what we do. Thought they were all healthy and lived off of fish, rice, veggies...bastards need to quit polluting like that. Funny how china is literally the worst at absolutely every kind of pollution. Its not even close. The whole world should put sanctions or tarriffs on their crappy potmetal goods until they change . Money or death, only 2 ways to affect change sadly
 
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We recycle like crazy ♻️, but it only goes so far. I did start donating to 4Ocean. Seems to be non political and just trying to get everyone on board to help pitch in and clean up the ocean. I can get on board with that. Check it out.
 
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Grand Vol said:
We certainly need to do our part in helping curb the coming disaster. However, we are almost a drop in the bucket...

https://www.earthday.org/2018/04/06/top-20-countries-ranked-by-mass-of-mismanaged-plastic-waste/

Things like this are why the Paris Agreement was so idiotic for the United States. Our economy suffers while people like China were free to continue doing whatever they wanted to do in regards to global pollution.

Regardless, we'll need to start somewhere and our own recycling efforts will be helpful.
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Like when the free huggers wanted us to move from paper to plastic?
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
That chart shows asia pollutes 1000x what we do. Thought they were all healthy and lived off of fish, rice, veggies...bastards need to quit polluting like that. Funny how china is literally the worst at absolutely every kind of pollution. Its not even close. The whole world should put sanctions or tarriffs on their crappy potmetal goods until they change . Money or death, only 2 ways to affect change sadly
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Pretty much. China dumps its trash into the middle of the ocean. And then we see plastic isn’t he ocean and punish ourselves for their crime.
 
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BigOrangeD said:
It would not hurt. Libs need to get off the Global Warming Climate Change nonsense and focus on the basics again. Pollution in our waters is a real problem.
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I see it as a compounding issue. I think there is climate change (not world ending) and humans have played a part. I am more towards we have indirectly screwed the world with pollution upsetting the balance rather than it being some paradigm shift caused by just air pollution. I would love to clean that up too. Seeing China like that makes me heart sick, seeing stuff like that makes me a little more willing to believe in man made climate change. But I think allowing the earth to do its thing is also important
 
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Mick said:
They banned straws in California with much ridicule from the far right on this board.
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Ban straws, but give out free plastic syringes with about ten times the amount of plastic inside...

You don't see the irony?

How is it Germany is so successful in their recycling efforts yet we fall so far behind?
 
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Grand Vol said:
Ban straws, but give out free plastic syringes with about ten times the amount of plastic inside...

You don't see the irony?

How is it Germany is so successful in their recycling efforts yet we fall so far behind?
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Every little bit counts, there is nothing ironic about it.

What is the German model for recycling? Is there a money incentive for the people to recycle plastics?
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
Yep and then turned around and handed out hundreds of thousands of plastic syringes.

LOL


Edit: got Grand Vol'ed
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Glad you and Grand see eye to eye that California is to blame for the plastics in the oceans because of it's clean needle program. They are not the only state with such programs and if you exchange your old needle for a new one that is one less needle that makes it way into the oceans.
 
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Mick said:
Every little bit counts, there is nothing ironic about it.

What is the German model for recycling? Is there a money incentive for the people to recycle plastics?
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Yeah, it is ironic. Take straws away, give sharp steel and massive amounts of single use plastic. Definition of ironic.

Anyway...

No, there is no monetary incentive. it's a national habit so to speak. I outlined it earlier in another thread, but here goes.

All paper, regardless of type (cardboard, paperboard, paper, anything but napkins/tissues) goes in a blue bin.

All recyclables (plastics to include bags/wraps/packing, Styrofoam and all metals) go in the yellow bin/bag.

Glass containers by color are all over the place. The furthest I had to walk was about a block to the glass bins.

Compostables go in a brown bin (this happened after I left)

Batteries were collected at the local supermarkets.

Everything else trash related goes into the trash container.
 
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Mick said:
Glad you and Grand see eye to eye that California is to blame for the plastics in the oceans because of it's clean needle program. They are not the only state with such programs and if you exchange your old needle for a new one that is one less needle that makes it way into the oceans.
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Maybe you should go back and reference the article on where we are at on the list of ocean polluters...
 
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