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The study questions “the widely held assumption that most plastic debris at sea comes from land-based sources.” The paper concludes almost three quarters of the bottles that were originally on the beach, and 83 per cent of those washed up during the study, were made in Asia, with most from China, and that they had been manufactured within the previous two years.
If they where burning these plastic bottles to generate electricity instead of moving them around in these ineffective recycling programs we would not have this problem.
Well sheeet, better tax the f*ck out of Canadians to put an end to that, cathmckenna
You humans are F’ed up.
Ok this is pollution and this is something, if confirmed. that Environmentalists can get all jazz hands about. Of course they will seek to ban plastic bottles instead of cracking down on dumping trash in the ocean.
See new Tweets What’s happening? Your Home Timeline Joe Great ClimateRebel1 · 52s Replying to Ya and Trump would rather invade Venezuela for oil! & just steer around or through the 8 million tons of plastic dumped in the ocean this past year. All too annex oil
Oh no damn Harper Government or maybe Ford
Horrible 😩
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