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"Make producers pay for the clean up. F them."

Totally agree...but this isn't a lake or local stretch of a river that a pulp mill is polluting, this random/isolated stretches of the ocean where everything ends up.

Does international waters jurisdiction make it harder to make them pay for it (from a legal perspective)?




I couldn't get to the article, but I'm fairly certain there are lakes and/or rivers in the world that are thoroughly polluted with plastic debris?


my point was when this happens (pollution in a river/lake), the legal jurisdiction is a little more black/white. by that i mean it's in one country or one state or one county or whatever so from a government perspective jurisdiction isn't hazy.

when it's 1000s of miles from any government in the ocean how does that work legally?

who makes the companies pay?




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