cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42447832
Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned U.S. waste imports in 2018.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250626132109/https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-26/malaysia-bans-us-plastic-waste-what-will-california-do
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Good. We need to stop producing so much plastic waste.
Put it on a bus and send it to a republican state.
Send it as raw materials to fortify trumps wall
They should never have started in the first place. Coming from a Malaysian.
Ship it back to the manufacturers
Plastic waste is a dilemma for the whole world. Unless its intended to become the fuel source for the next evolution of Earth’s dominant global species of course.
Isnt plastic made from oil already?
Most plastics, some are organically sources
Yeah and fucking PLA (made from cornstarch) is marketed as “compostable” which is even worse for the environment because people feel like it gives them the free pass to toss it on the ground.
Oh for sure, not saying that stuff is better just that it isn’t oil. Composting those usually requires extreme heat which causes problems
Sigh, just send it to us in Sweden, we’ll burn in cleanly and recover energy from it.
Does that work? I don’t think you can burn plastic cleanly…
Dump it in the nearest red state as a thank you for pushing so hard to elect a candidate who thought tariffs had no bad consequences .
Shoving garbage to another country, while very american, isn’t really a good solution to begin with.
Red state are in the same country
