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Originally Posted by Jima64
I'm sure that Oregons efforts to reduce plastic will have a profound effect on the amount of plastic tossed away. Most articles I read about this waste shows that it is almost always the asian countries that use the most and contaminate the oceans worst with tossing the bags in the garbage. But our leaders and educated friends will still try to save the world with our wallets.
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...and they've been throwing away the plastic that WE have been sending them, because WE don't have enough landfills or recycling programs to do the work ourselves. That's all ending now that China has rejected our garbage in the last year.
The plastic has to go SOMEWHERE. Unless and until we reduce its manufacture and find something productive to do with what we already have.