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Yeah, it's much easier and cheaper to have someone else emit all of it (and most likely more than we would have) on your behalf on the other side of the world. Locally it wouldn't fly, because people don't like the idea of just burning it and releasing all of the pollutants, but if you ship it in the container that would otherwise go empty anyway, and then they do it for you, it's okay.



I’m assuming that developing country industry are buying the plastics waste for re-processing, not direct burning.

It’s re-processed there because it’s economically viable to do the sorting/cleaning that wouldn’t be with higher wages.

I don’t believe there’s wide-scale shipping of straight garbage trans-continentally, that’s cheaper to process locally/regionally.




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