• Moon@slrpnk.net
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      7 days ago

      Do you think plastic waste ending up in the ocean, is some kind of industry sanctioned punishment for falling birthrate or something? Or were you being sarcastic?

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          2 days ago

          If we had less people companies would dump twice the amount of plastics in the ocean

          You going to try and explain this then?

          • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            2 days ago

            Wasn’t me who posted it, but the way I see it, here’s how it makes sense in a sort of rough common sense way:

            They dump as much as they can get away with. Roughly speaking, half the people, half the regulators, half the people bringing down the cost of labor needed to dispose of it properly, half the researchers making it easier.

            While yes it would also mean half the plastics produced in the first place, it doesn’t really matter, the companies dump as much as they can get away with.