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In reply to the discussion: World's first ocean plastic-cleaning machine set to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)31. Yup, and China just banned 32 more types of solid waste,
including scrapped cars and ships. That is to say Chinas Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) did.
It hurts the huge waste recycling industries that grew up there, of course, which once handled I believe I read something like half of some types of our planet's recyclable waste and scrap materials. But China has huge environmental problems of its own, which its central government is attacking on a scale only centralized authoritarian governments can do. MEP itself is going to become a larger Ministry of Ecological Environment. And all "foreign garbage" that can be replaced by their own domestic resources will be phased out.
They're serious, and they're forcing nations around the planet to seek more serious solutions also.
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World's first ocean plastic-cleaning machine set to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch [View all]
sl8
Apr 2018
OP
Lots of reports on how/why this is failing--starting from the refusal of many forms of plastic
hlthe2b
Apr 2018
#9
at least if the bags are disposed in the available trash barrels in parks/trails in my community...
hlthe2b
Apr 2018
#41
As the article says, this can't itself collect microparticles at all
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2018
#40
Can't disagree with what you say, but I stand by assertion that the $40meg is not a waste of money.n
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#42