This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Sunday, 26 December 2021
Got a Problem? Export It!
The US is the world's largest exporter of plastic waste. Up to 2015, the US used to send most of its plastic waste to China. Then China decided it didn't want to be the 'world's plastic rubbish dump'. It now seems that much of the US's plastic waste is being diverted to Latin America (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/24/latin-america-urges-us-to-reduce-plastic-waste-exports-to-region). Latin American Environmental Organisations are calling on the US to reduce the export of plastic waste to their regions. Plastic waste exports to Latin America doubled in the first 7 months of 2020. Mexico, being close and having cheap labour, gets most. The waste creates serious environmental problems and tends not to be disposed of/recycled in Latin America. The US should create its own specialist plants for dealing with the plastic waste that they generate locally.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Ice, Baby, Ice!
Freshwater accounts for only a tiny percentage of water on the planet. It's declining. An assessment, by scientists at the Universitie...

-
It's necessary, where possible, to replace diesel and petrol-fueled vehicles by electrical equivalents. Electric vehicles (EVs) don...
-
Seagrasses are the only flowering plants growing in marine environments. Seagrass meadows (large accumulations of these plants) provide vit...
-
Zonal pricing is a proposed change to the UK energy market. It would result in energy consumers paying less for electricity, if they are ba...
No comments:
Post a Comment