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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
I've been doing a little digging into the internet and it is supposed to be illegal for any city or state in the US to dump garbage in the ocean and has been so for a number of years. So where are these plastic products coming from that are polluting the ocean, primarily the Pacific Ocean? The five biggest violators are China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. These 5 countries dump more plastic into the ocean than all other countries in the world combined. So how is banning plastic bags in the US going to affect the amount of plastic in the ocean? It isn't, not one bit because we don't dump it into the ocean.
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Up until this past year, much of Florida's trash was sent to China. This has been in all the papers, it's an actual "thing" for the Villages. If you check on some of the newsrags online, and even here I believe - you'll see information about it. Look for pretty much any thread or article about the Recreation Center weekly schedule being printed in the Daily Sun for details.