08-10-18, 10:48 PM
Agree with much of what you say BBROWN1664.
But at the same time we have a policy of dumping our waste on third world and developing countries. Though some of these countries are now rightly refusing to take our waste.
And of course the biggest part of our recycling bin problem is we have so much darn pointless packaging to stick in there in the first place.
Totally agree it's a global problem. As for the USA, well Trump is in complete denial of all enviromental issues. Plus he's renaging on international agreement after agreement. Trump is a problem for us all.
I would argue, by the way, that China is actually one country that is now, and to some degree has already in the past, taken global warming more seriously than most other countries, and it's now moving to more robustly tackle waste. China may be a big polluter as a country, by on a single person basis they are one of the least polluting countries in the world.
But regardless of what other countries do, we need to clean up our act. Cos if nothing else, leading the way on emmisions, plastic use, recycling and waste means we'll have the technology and expertise to sell to other countries when sooner or later they will be screaming out for solutions to a mounting problem. It's a win win, if we can get it right (big if)
But at the same time we have a policy of dumping our waste on third world and developing countries. Though some of these countries are now rightly refusing to take our waste.
And of course the biggest part of our recycling bin problem is we have so much darn pointless packaging to stick in there in the first place.
Totally agree it's a global problem. As for the USA, well Trump is in complete denial of all enviromental issues. Plus he's renaging on international agreement after agreement. Trump is a problem for us all.
I would argue, by the way, that China is actually one country that is now, and to some degree has already in the past, taken global warming more seriously than most other countries, and it's now moving to more robustly tackle waste. China may be a big polluter as a country, by on a single person basis they are one of the least polluting countries in the world.
But regardless of what other countries do, we need to clean up our act. Cos if nothing else, leading the way on emmisions, plastic use, recycling and waste means we'll have the technology and expertise to sell to other countries when sooner or later they will be screaming out for solutions to a mounting problem. It's a win win, if we can get it right (big if)