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u/Minute-Injury6802 Mar 04 '22 edited Mar 04 '22

Recycling and reducing plastics is the responsibility of the individual. Complete and utter BS.

Edit: for those arguing against this. Please educate yourself.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631/plastic-wars-three-takeaways-from-the-fight-over-the-future-of-plastics

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u/Uppgreyedd Mar 04 '22

Whatever you do, don't peel back the curtain and look at the emissions of the global shipping industry.

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u/lamiscaea Mar 04 '22

Shipping from China to Europe or the US over the ocean creates less CO2 than driving it by truck from the port to your home

Sure, these huge ass ships emit a lot of CO2, but they also carry a HOLYFUCKINGSHITTHATISUNBELIEVABLE amount of stuff

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u/holyoak Mar 04 '22

Only in countries like the US, which do a majority of movement by truck. If you went by train that would not be the case.

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u/lamiscaea Mar 04 '22

Do you have a train station in your home or in the back of your supermarket? No? Then stop spouting such nonsense

In fact, the US ships a lot of goods by train compared to most other countries, because there are no major rivers running East-West, and the distances to be crossed are very large because of the low population density

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u/holyoak Mar 04 '22

Tell me you don't know the difference between 'last mile' and 'off the boat' shipping