• @lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de
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    509 months ago

    plastic waste per capita: the US is at top(if we exclude small island nations)
    plastic waste in absolute terms: the US is not far behind China, with India at a distant third place.

    the reduction is plastic waste generation in China is far more than that of US1.

    so, what I mean to say is that more people ≠ more pollution. but I do agree that the problem is to be tackled with active participation of the government, which won’t be there because of muh economy.


    [1]: By 2016, China’s overall plastic waste production had fallen to 21.60 million tons, a reduction of nearly 28 million tons (for comparison, U.S. production fell less than 4 tons during the same time period). Moreover, despite being one of the largest overall producers of plastic waste, China’s per capita production of plastic waste was one of the lowest in the world in 2016 at 15.6 kilograms a year per person.